• Journal of Korea Ship Safrty Technology Authority
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• v.4
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• pp.16-21
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• 2000

• Journal of Korea Ship Safrty Technology Authority
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• v.3
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• pp.14-25
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• 1999

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.60-66
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• 1999

Most of the small-type fishing boats in this country don't have the autopilot system such as the large ships have. In this papers, we describes on the development of electro magnetic compass for the autopilot system of the small-type fishing boat, which is utilized the MR(magnetic resistance) device and the inclination sensor. And we investigated the validity of the developed electro magnetic compass through results of actual experiment.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2005

The purpose of this research is to improve the reliability of automobile navigation system that utilizes the magnetic compass for localization. On account of its sensitiveness against the dynamic external interference of the magnetic field, the electronic compass itself is not accurate enough to be used for the localization compared to the gyro-compass. To overcome this shortcoming, in this research, a robust electronic compass is designed by using two magnetic compasses to cancel out the dynamic interences efficiently. That is, a dual compass predictive calibration algorithm against irregular external interference of magnetic field is newly proposed and implemented in this paper. When the dynamic interference can be eliminated from the electronic compass, it becomes much accurate than the gyro-based system that suffers from the accumulative drift error. The reliability and performance of the designed system have been verified through the real driving experiments.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.106-112
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• 2006

A new model for the continuous-magnetic interferences has been proposed in this paper to remove external interferes of magnetic field to the dual electric compass. By this removal, the dual electric compass can be used for proving the azimuth angle in an automobile navigation system instead of the rate gyroscope. In the navigation system with a GPS receiver, a DR sensor such as a rate gyroscope is needed to overcome the shielded areas, which is relatively expensive and requires frequent calibrations. However the dual electric compass designed by this research is cheap and provides absolute azimuth angle precisely, which is beneficiary to be used as a DR sensor. The main contribution of this paper is that the long-lasting magnetic interferences have been removed out by using the proposed model, which never be studied before. With a hybrid navigation system using a DR sensor, we demonstrated that dual electric compass is better than a rate gyroscope in terms of both economics and performances.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.127-136
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• 2002

This paper Presents a discussion on the design and realization for the Phase Sensitive Defector (PSD) circuitry of Flu$\chi$-gate Compass that gives direction information to the Directional Frequency Analysis and Recording (DIFAR) Sonobuoy in Air Anti-Submarine Warfare. PSD circuitry is realized with Twin-T RC networked active band-pass filter. Results of a performance test the PSD circuitry shows that the effectiveness of band-pass filtering of desired $2F_0$ second harmonic signal, which is Pro- portional to the direction of earth's magnetic field. This resulted in the extraction of direction information.