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Self Compensating Flux-gate Magnetometer Using Microcomputer (마이크로컴퓨터를 이용한 자체 보상형 flux-gate 마그네토미터제작)

  • Ga, E.M.;Son, D.;Son, D.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.149-153
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    • 2002
  • Flux-gate magnetometer has been still used for low field magnetic field measurement with portability, low power consumption, and high reliability. In many applications, flux-gate magnetometer measures not absolute values but changes of the earth magnetic field. For the eia magnetic field change measurements, we have constructed a high sensitive 3-axis flux-gate magnetometer of which measuring ranges is ${\pm}$1000 nT and noise level is 5pT/√㎐ at 1 ㎐. Using this magnetometer, we can compensate the earth magnetic field of ${\pm}$50,000 nT with successive approximation methods using microcomputer. After earth magnetic field compensation, we could measure earth magnetic field changes with ${\pm}$100 nT measuring ranges.

Construction of 3-Axis Flux-gate Magnetometer for Attitude Control of Satellite (인공위성의 자세제어용 3-축 Flux-gate 마그네토미터 제작)

  • Son, De-Rac
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.182-185
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    • 2006
  • In this work, we have constructed 3-axis flux-gate magnetometer for the attitude control of satellite. The constructed magnetometer shows uncertainty of ${\pm}1%$, noise level of $0.2nT/\sqrt{Hz}$ at 1 Hz under 1W power consumption. Environment test for satellite component, acceleration test and thermal cycle test were carried out. For the acceleration test, magnetometer was vibrated frequency ranging from 10 Hz to 1 kHz at 15 g (g : gravitational acceleration at earth), and for thermal cycle test, 4 times of thermal cycle were carried out temperature ranging from $-55^{\circ}C\;to\;+80^{\circ}C$ under vacuum of $1x10^{-6}Torr$.

Construction of Feed-back Type Flux-gate Magnetometer (피드백형 플럭스게이트 마그네토미터 제작)

  • Son, De-Rac
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.45-48
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    • 2012
  • Feed-back type 3-axis flux-gate magnetometer using Co-based amorphous ribbon (Metglass$^{(R)}$2714A) was constructed in this work. Measuring range of magnetic field and frequency were ${\pm}100\;{\mu}T$ and dc~10 Hz respectively. For the interface to computer, microcontroller and 24 bit ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) were employed and resolution of digital output was 0.1 nT. Magnetometer noise of analog output was 5 pT/$\sqrt{Hz}$ at 1 Hz. Digital output of the magnetometer showed linearity of $1{\times}10^{-4}$ and the offset drift was smaller than 0.2 nT during 1 h.

Annealing Effects of Amorphous Cores for the Application of Flux-gate Sensors (Flux-gate 센서용 비정질 코아의 열처리효과)

  • 김용준;손대락;손동환
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.134-140
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    • 2001
  • Flux-gate magnetometer was developed in 1930's, and it has been widely used for the low magnetic field measurements. In this work, we have employed amorphous ribbon 2714A produced by Allied Chem. Co. as sensor core material. To develop low noise, low power consumption, and high reliability flux-gate magnetometer, we have measured ac magnetic properties depending on the annealing conditions. As quenched state amorphous core shows high noise level and ac magnetic properties were changed under the condition of accelerated aging test, but amorphous ribbon, which was annealed under 350 $\^{C}$ during 1 hour, shows low noise level of 0.1 nT in the frequency range of dc∼10 Hz which was 10 times better than the as quenched amorphous ribbon. Under accelerated aging test, ac magnetic properties such as squareness and coercivity of the annealed samples show higher reliability and approached to a certain limiting value as exponential function. We can see that high reliability and low noise flux-gate magnetometer could be developed, if we consider this ac magnetic properties change in the sensor design.

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Design and Fabrication of Digital 3-axis Magnetometer for Magnetic Signal from Warship (함정 자기신호 측정용 3-축 디지털 자기센서 설계 및 제작에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eunae;Son, Derac
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.123-127
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    • 2014
  • We developed a digital 3-axis flux-gate magnetometer for magnetic field signal measurement from warship during demagnetizing and degaussing processes. For the magnetometer design, we considered following points; the distance between magnetic field measurement station and magnetometer located under sea is about several 100 m, the magnetometer is exposed to magnetic field of ${\pm}1mT$ during demagnetizing process, and magnetometer is located under the sea about 30 m depth. To overcome long distance problem, magnetometer could be operated on wide input supply voltage range of 16~36 V using DC/DC converter, and for the data communication between the magnetometer and measurement station a RS422 serial interface was employed. To improve perming effect due to the ${\pm}1mT$ during demagnetizing process, magnetometer could be compensated external magnetic field up to ${\pm}1mT$ but magnetic field measuring rang is only ${\pm}100{\mu}T$. The perming effect was about ${\pm}2nT$ under ${\pm}1mT$ external magnetic field. The magnetometer was tested water vessel with air pressure up to 6 bar for the sea water pressure problems. Linearity of the magnetometer was better than 0.01 % in the measuring range of ${\pm}0.1mT$ and noise level was $30pT/\sqrt{Hz}$ at 1 Hz.