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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2019
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tobias Gurdan, Germering, DE;

Daniel Gurdan, Germering, DE;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 17/38 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G01C 17/02 (2006.01); G01R 33/02 (2006.01); G01C 21/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 17/38 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G01C 17/02 (2013.01); G01C 21/10 (2013.01); G01R 33/02 (2013.01); B64C 2201/145 (2013.01);
Abstract

An unmanned aerial vehicle includes one or more magnetometers, configured to detect a magnetic field and to output magnetometer data corresponding to a magnitude of the detected magnetic field; a position sensor, configured to detect a position of the unmanned aerial vehicle relative to one or more reference points, and to output position sensor data representing the detected position; one or more processors, configured to control the unmanned aerial vehicle to rotate about its z-axis; receive magnetometer data comprising a plurality of z-axis directional measurements taken during the rotation about the z-axis; receive position sensor data and determine from at least the position sensor data a magnetic field inclination of the detected position; and determine a z-axis magnetometer correction value as a difference between the received magnetometer data for the z-axis and the determined magnetic field inclination.


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