The Earth's magnetic field provides a uniform magnetic field over a wide area of several kilometers, among 30 and 60 mu T depending on the location. Thus, cars, which have a high ferrous content mainly under car parts, provoke local disturbances around 1 mu T over the constant Earth's magnetic field whether it is moving or still standing. Giant Magneto-Resistance (GMR) gradient sensors are able to convert this Earth's magnetic field variations into a voltage signature, due to the 'Giant Magnetoresistive Effect'. Nevertheless, the output of the GMR sensors is too weak to operate with, and it must be amplified and filtered enough to be digitized and then processed. In this paper, the authors show the design and implementation of a practical conditioner circuit for GMR sensors and a simple speed calculation algorithm used in their embedded speed monitoring system for vehicles. The signal conditioner has been adjusted for car applications, where a high gain in a certain bandwidth is required due to the relatively large distance between the sensors on the pavement and the under car parts. Their conditioning circuit amplifies the sensor's output voltage by 36.360 in a bandwidth among 0.19 and 48.23 Hz. They present, compare and analyze two real car signals captured with their embedded system. With the small and cheap magnetic sensors and only a few additional components, their embedded speed monitoring system is suitable in automotive applications, where it would drastically reduce the cost of the expensive installation procedures of current car speed monitoring systems or even car detecting systems.


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    Title :

    Signal conditioning for GMR magnetic sensors. Applied to traffic speed monitoring GMR sensors



    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 12 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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