Exciting current effect of fluxgate sensor to measurement of magnetic field

Author

Chansamorn, P. ; Chomsuwan, K.

Author_Institution

Electr. Technol. Educ. Dept., King Mongkut´s Univ. of Technol. Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Fluxgate sensor is a kind of magnetic sensor which is used in low magnetic field measurement. The key components are magnetic core and exciting current. Easy saturation magnetic core is required and square-wave current excitation is fed to exciting coil in order to make magnetic core operated at saturation region. In this paper, three kinds of ferrite core that had an operating frequency of 2-20 kHz were used in the experiment. Various kind of exciting current was fed to exciting coil and magnetic field detection capability was studied. Resulting of magnetic field measurement in range of 0-600 μT which were obtained from the proposed sensor was show in experiment.

Keywords

coils; fluxgate magnetometers; magnetic cores; magnetic field measurement; magnetic sensors; exciting coil; exciting current effect; fluxgate sensor; frequency 2 kHz to 20 kHz; magnetic field detection; magnetic field measurement; magnetic flux density 0 muT to 600 muT; magnetic sensor; saturation magnetic core; square wave current excitation; Current measurement; Ferrites; Magnetic cores; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Magnetic hysteresis; Sensitivity; Ferrite; Fluxgate; Helmholtzt; Saturation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2015 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hua Hin

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICon.2015.7207095

Filename

7207095