Fast, Cheap, and Scalable Magnetic Tracker with an Array of Magnetoresistors

We present the hardware of a cheap multi-sensor magnetometric setup, where a relatively large set of magnetic field components is measured in several positions by calibrated magnetoresistive detectors. The setup is developed to map the (inhomogeneous) field generated by a known magnetic source, whic...

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Veröffentlicht in:Instruments (Basel) 2021, Vol.5 (1), p.3
Hauptverfasser: Biancalana, Valerio, Cecchi, Roberto, Chessa, Piero, Bevilacqua, Giuseppe, Dancheva, Yordanka, Vigilante, Antonio
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Zusammenfassung:We present the hardware of a cheap multi-sensor magnetometric setup, where a relatively large set of magnetic field components is measured in several positions by calibrated magnetoresistive detectors. The setup is developed to map the (inhomogeneous) field generated by a known magnetic source, which is measured and then discerned from the background (homogeneous) geomagnetic field. The data output from this hardware can be successfully and reliably used to retrieve the position and orientation of the magnetic source with respect to the sensor frame, together with the orientation of the frame with respect to the environmental field. Possible applications of the setup are briefly discussed, and a synthetic description of the methods of data elaboration and analysis is provided.
ISSN:2410-390X
2410-390X
DOI:10.3390/instruments5010003