Magnetic sensors for navigation applications: an overview

W Li, J Wang - The Journal of navigation, 2014 - cambridge.org
This paper reviews currently existing electronic magnetic sensor technologies for navigation
applications. Magnetic compasses have been used in navigation for centuries. The Earth's …

Geometric approach to strapdown magnetometer calibration in sensor frame

JF Vasconcelos, G Elkaim, C Silvestre… - … on Aerospace and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work a new algorithm is derived for the onboard calibration of three-axis strapdown
magnetometers. The proposed calibration method is written in the sensor frame, and …

A novel calibration method of magnetic compass based on ellipsoid fitting

J Fang, H Sun, J Cao, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic compass is widely used to indicate the heading of vehicle by measuring the
Earth's magnetic field. However, it suffers from local magnetic interferences; thus, the …

Calibration methods for inertial and magnetic sensors

S Bonnet, C Bassompierre, C Godin, S Lesecq… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2009 - Elsevier
Low-cost inertial/magnetic sensors are typically used to determine sensor attitude in
navigation systems and biomedical applications. Different calibration procedures must be …

A survey of calibration algorithms for small satellite magnetometers

HE Soken - Measurement, 2018 - Elsevier
Magnetometers are an integral part of attitude determination system for the low-Earth
orbiting small satellites as they are lightweight, inexpensive and reliable. Yet using …

A wearable system for gait training in subjects with Parkinson's disease

F Casamassima, A Ferrari, B Milosevic, P Ginis… - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a system for gait training and rehabilitation for Parkinson's disease (PD)
patients in a daily life setting is presented. It is based on a wearable architecture aimed at …

Calibration of a magnetometer in combination with inertial sensors

M Kok, JD Hol, TB Schön, F Gustafsson… - … on Information Fusion, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Measurements from magnetometers and inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes)
can be combined to give 3D orientation estimates. In order to obtain accurate orientation …

Attitude-independent magnetometer calibration with time-varying bias

JC Springmann, JW Cutler - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2012 - arc.aiaa.org
A method is presented for on-orbit, attitude-independent magnetometer calibration that
includes the effect of time-varying bias due to electronics onboard a spacecraft. The …

A wearable inertial pedestrian navigation system with quaternion-based extended Kalman filter for pedestrian localization

YL Hsu, JS Wang, CW Chang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a wearable inertial pedestrian navigation system and its associated
pedestrian trajectory reconstruction algorithm for reconstructing pedestrian walking …

The attitude determination system of the RAX satellite

JC Springmann, AJ Sloboda, AT Klesh, MW Bennett… - Acta Astronautica, 2012 - Elsevier
The Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) is a triple CubeSat that launched on November 19, 2010.
RAX was designed to study plasma irregularities in the polar lower ionosphere (80–300km) …