Mapping the magnetic field using a magnetometer array with noisy input Gaussian process regression
Ferromagnetic materials in indoor environments give rise to disturbances in the ambient magnetic field. Maps of these magnetic disturbances can be used for indoor localisation. A Gaussian process can be used to learn the spatially varying magnitude of the magnetic field using magnetometer measurements and information about the position of the magnetometer. The position of the magnetometer, however, is frequently only approximately known. This negatively affects the quality of the magnetic field map. In this paper, we investigate how an array of magnetometers can be used to improve the quality of the magnetic field map. The position of the array is approximately known, but the relative locations of the magnetometers on the array are known. We include this information in a novel method to make a map of the ambient magnetic field. We study the properties of our method in simulation and show that our method improves the map quality. We also demonstrate the efficacy of our method with experimental data for the mapping of the magnetic field using an array of 30 magnetometers.
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