Analysis and compensation of background magnetic field error for pedestrian navigation system

Xiaochun Tian, Jiabin Chen, Jianyu Shang, Yifei Ling, Liujun Wang

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Abstract

The existence of the background magnetic field (BMF) in the environment leads to magnetic sensors' measurement error in pedestrian navigation system (PNS). To solve this problem, this paper designs a magnetic sensor field calibration method applicable for PNS by firstly analyzing the BMF in the environment and building the error model. Then an ellipsoid-restraint-based method is adopted to calibrate the parameters in BMF model. On this basis, we carried out the BMF error calibration experiment and pedestrian trajectory experiment. The results show that the proposed method can effectively compensate the BMF error. Meanwhile, the heading angle calculated by the magnetic sensors can assist to improve the positioning accuracy of PNS. The position error at the end point accounts for 1% of the total walking distance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 36th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2017
EditorsTao Liu, Qianchuan Zhao
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages6175-6178
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9789881563934
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Sept 2017
Event36th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2017 - Dalian, China
Duration: 26 Jul 201728 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameChinese Control Conference, CCC
ISSN (Print)1934-1768
ISSN (Electronic)2161-2927

Conference

Conference36th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period26/07/1728/07/17

Keywords

  • Background magnetic field
  • Ellipsoid constraint
  • MEMS
  • Pedestrian navigation

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