An Efficient Method for Gyroscope-aided Full Magnetometer Calibration

Maoran Zhu, Yuanxin Wu, Wenxian Yu

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Abstract:	Due to the interference of the onboard magnetic material, the magnetometer intrinsic parameters differ from specification and the cross-sensor misalignment between magnetometers and other sensors is distorted as well. This paper proposes an efficient full magnetometer calibration algorithm at the aid of gyroscopes by solving a homogeneous least-squared problem. The algorithm is able to accomplish both the intrinsic and cross-sensor calibration in a single step. It can serve as a coarse calibration method alone or be used as a good initial value for other fine algorithms for more accurate result.
Published in:	Proceedings of the ION 2019 Pacific PNT Meeting April 8 - 11, 2019 Hilton Waikiki Beach Honolulu, Hawaii
Pages:	606 - 614
Cite this article:	Zhu, Maoran, Wu, Yuanxin, Yu, Wenxian, "An Efficient Method for Gyroscope-aided Full Magnetometer Calibration," Proceedings of the ION 2019 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2019, pp. 606-614. https://doi.org/10.33012/2019.16826
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