Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic sensor calibration for aircraft
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Application No.: US14573657Application Date: 2014-12-17
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Publication No.: US09671226B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: John R. Morrison , Vibhor L. Bageshwar , Ruth Dagmar Kreichauf , Zdenek Kana
- Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NJ Morris Plains
- Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
- Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Morris Plains
- Agency: Fogg & Powers LLC
- Main IPC: G01C17/38
- IPC: G01C17/38 ; G01R33/00

Abstract:
A method of magnetic sensor calibration for aircraft comprises obtaining attitude data, heading angle data, position data, and date information; inputting the position data and date into an earth magnetic field (EMF) model and into an EMF model correction map; inputting the attitude and heading angle data into a NOLL to body frame transformation module; outputting an EMF model vector from the EMF model; outputting an EMF correction vector from the EMF model correction map; compensating the EMF model vector with the EMF correction vector to produce a corrected EMF model vector; inputting the corrected EMF model vector into the transformation module; inputting magnetic field measurements data into a calibration processing unit; inputting true earth magnetic field data from the transformation module into the processing unit; computing compensation coefficients in the processing unit based on the magnetic field measurements and the true earth magnetic field; and storing the compensation coefficients.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160178371A1 MAGNETIC SENSOR CALIBRATION FOR AIRCRAFT Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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