Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic compass calibration systems and methods
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Application No.: US14941497Application Date: 2015-11-13
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Publication No.: US10215564B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Mark Johnson , Warwick Mills , Chris Yeomans
- Applicant: FLIR Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OR Wilsonville
- Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Wilsonville
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G01C17/38
- IPC: G01C17/38 ; G01C21/18

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide automatic and substantially continuous calibration for compasses mounted to moving structures. A compass calibration system may include a logic device configured to receive one or more sensor signals and determine a corrected magnetic field based, at least in part, on a measured local magnetic field. The logic device may be adapted to receive an angular velocity, an acceleration, the measured local magnetic field, and/or a speed of a mobile structure; generate stabilized roll and pitch components of an orientation of the mobile structure based, at least in part, on the acceleration and angular velocity; and determine the corrected magnetic field based, at least in part, on the speed, the local magnetic field, the stabilized roll and pitch components, and/or the angular velocity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160069681A1 AUTOMATIC COMPASS CALIBRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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