Affiliation:
1. Ordnance Engineering College
Abstract
In magnetic heading measurement of quadrotor, it is necessary to compensate the magnetic deviation of the electronic magnetic compass. For the flight characteristics of quadrotor, a method using sampling data when the aircraft is in the air to achieve automatic compensation of the deviation has been proposed. Using elliptical hypothesis method one can only compensate deviation for quadrotor flying in horizontal plane by collecting the magnetic sensor data in different directions. When the quadrotor flying in any attitudes, using ellipsoid hypothesis method can obtain parameters used by magnetic deviation compensation. Using these parameters, the pitch and roll angles of quadrotor, the magnetic deviation could be compensated. Experimental results show that this method works well and has a good real time performance. The measurement error of heading angle could be less than 1 °.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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