Magnetic Interference Analysis and Compensation Method of Airborne Electronic Equipment in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Abstract

At present, the research and application of aeromagnetic compensation are almost all based on the Tolles–Lawson (T–L) model. With the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the number of intelligent electronic devices in UAVs is increasing, and the magnetic environment of the platform is becoming more and more complicated. Research shows that the magnetic interference caused by airborne electronic equipment has been very significant, sometimes even reaching 100 nT. The traditional airborne magnetic compensation method based on the T–L model cannot effectively compensate the magnetic interference caused by airborne electronic equipment. Aiming at the problem of magnetic interference of airborne electronic equipment of UAVs, this paper analyzes the origin of magnetic interference of airborne electronic equipment using experiments, and it was found that it is related to the power supply current, and the characteristics of magnetic interference are similar to permanent magnet materials. Based on this feature, we eliminated the magnetic interference caused by the working current of airborne equipment by establishing a linear compensation model based on the current’s source. The experimental data show that the current interference source model proposed in this paper can effectively compensate the magnetic interference generated by airborne electronic equipment and the compensation improvement ratio (IR) is greater than 10.

Keywords

• aeromagnetic compensation
• unmanned aerial vehicle
• current interference source model