Apparatus and Method For Estimating Virtual Axis Magnetic Compass Data to Compensate the Tilt Error of Biaxial Magnetic Compass, and Apparatus For Calculating Azimuth Based on the Same

摘要

Provided is an apparatus for estimating virtual axis geomagnetic data using a 2-axis geomagnetic sensor and an inclinometer, including a geomagnetic data normalizing unit for normalizing 2-axis geomagnetic data measured by the 2-axis geomagnetic sensor, a tilt angle calculator for calculating a tilt angle of the 2-axis geomagnetic sensor by using tilt information measured by the inclinometer, and a virtual axis geomagnetic data estimator for determining a magnitude of virtual geomagnetic data with respect to a virtual axis by using the normalized 2-axis geomagnetic data, and determining a sign of the virtual geomagnetic data based on the normalized 2-axis geomagnetic data, the calculated tilt angle and a dip angle to thereby estimate the virtual geomagnetic data.