Abstract
Having wide application area and high performance, Fluxgate magnetometers are popular devices to measure low frequency AC and DC magnetic field vectors. In this work, we designed a simple and a low cost magnetometer prototype to obtain natural earth magnetic field value between ± 0.6 Gauss (G). Using basic microprocessors and a phase detection code technique, unlike conventionally lock-in amplifier, we drove the sensor by excitation signal whose frequency is 1.086 kHz and magnitude is 31 mA. Eventually, the direction and the magnitude of DC magnetic field is successfully determined with the implemented fluxgate magnetometer prototype.
Keywords
Magnetometer
Fluxgate compass
Electrical engineering
Magnetic field
Lock-in amplifier
Amplifier
SIGNAL (programming language)
Electronic engineering
Low frequency
Computer science
Physics
Acoustics
Engineering
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Telecommunications
CMOS
Subject Areas
Magnetic Field Sensors Techniques
·Electrical and Electronic Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
·Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ·Physical Sciences
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
·Molecular Biology ·Life Sciences
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