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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2008
Applicant:
Mark R. Schneider, Williston, VT (US);
Inventor:
Mark R. Schneider, Williston, VT (US);
Assignee:
Ascension Technology Corp., Milton, VT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 7/004 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electromagnetic tracking system and a distortion compensation method that utilize a lead-lag network model to compensate for position and orientation distortion caused by eddy currents formed in one more conductive distorters located within a tracking environment during electromagnetic tracking of one or more objects. The method is adaptive relative to the amount of distortion cause by the conductive distorters.