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Calibration of Triaxial Accelerometer and Triaxial Magnetometer for Tilt Compensated Electronic Compass

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This research paper describes the method for the calibration of accelerometer and magnetometer for tilt compensated electronic compass. The electronic compass is implemented using triaxial MEMS accelerometer and triaxial MEMS magnetometer. The heading of the compass is generally influenced by scale factors, offsets and misalignment errors of these sensors. The proposed calibration method determines twelve calibration parameters in six stationary positions for accelerometer and twelve calibration parameters in 3D rotations for magnetometer.

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This work was supported by Internal Grant Agency of Tomas Bata University in Zlin under the project No. IGA/FAI/2016/035.

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Nad Stranemi 4511, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Ales Kuncar, Martin Sysel & Tomas Urbanek

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Radek Silhavy

  2. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Roman Senkerik

  3. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova

  4. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Petr Silhavy

  5. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Zdenka Prokopova

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Kuncar, A., Sysel, M., Urbanek, T. (2016). Calibration of Triaxial Accelerometer and Triaxial Magnetometer for Tilt Compensated Electronic Compass. In: Silhavy, R., Senkerik, R., Oplatkova, Z.K., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Automation Control Theory Perspectives in Intelligent Systems. CSOC 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 466. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33389-2_5

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