Some methods which use an optical tracker(OT) as a standard reference of electromagnetic tracker(EMT) were proposed in order to compensate the output error of electromagnetic tracker. Usually,they use a magneto-optic tool to collect the outputs of OT and EMT simultaneously,and then compare the output of OT with that of EMT to compensate the error of EMT. Although the outputs of EMT and OT can be matched each other by using a time stamp which denotes when the acquirement command is sent,but the accuracy will decrease if the tool moves faster for the errors of the time stamp itself. A rapid method for compensating EMT output error is proposed. A particular scan mode of the magneto-optic tool is designed for collecting EMT and OT outputs,and a data registration method is proposed to match the outputs of EMT and OT. The simulated results show that the output error of EMT can be decreased efficiently and the accuracy of the compensation can be improved by about 15% compared with that of the existing methods.
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