A novel positioning and orientation system based on three-axis magnetic coils

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2211-2219

  Hu, Chao ^a,b   Song, Shuang ^b,c   Wang, Xiaojing ^b   Meng, Max Q H ^b,d   Li, Baopu ^b,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Equation based algorithm; function fitting signal extraction; positioning and orientation; three axis magnetic dipoles

Indexed keywords

AC SIGNALS; ALTERNATING CURRENT; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FUNCTION FITTING; MAGNETIC COIL; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; NOVEL ALGORITHM; ORIENTATION PARAMETER; PHASE INFORMATION; POSITIONING AND ORIENTATION SYSTEMS; QUASI-STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; SAMPLING METHOD; SENSING SIGNALS; SENSOR COILS; SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS; SIGNAL EXTRACTION; THREE-AXIS;

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

SENSORS;

EID: 84863002099     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2188537     Document Type: Article

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