Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Jean-Charles Vidal

Roland Blanpain

Patrick Le Masson

Guy Chiron

Magnetic process for determining the trajectory of a moving vehicle for finding a fixed or moving magnetic object and apparatus for performing the process. The apparatus comprises magnetometers for measuring at least p independent components of the gradient of the local magnetic field, in which p is an integer equal to the number of dimensions of the space in which the moving vehicle is displaced, a circuit for storing a scalar criterion which is a function of at least one of the components of the measured gradient, a circuit for calculating the direction (.theta., .psi.) maximizing the criterion as a function of the measured gradient and a display, for use in guiding the vehicle.

Magnetic process for determining a trajectory for finding a magnetic

Each end of the rods surrounding the positioning sensor is provided with a coil, through which passes a current, whose intensity is automatically regulated as a function of the sensor readings in order to make the gradient of the magnetic field due to the rods and to the field itself zero within the sensor area.

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Meylan, France

Jean-Charles Vidal