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<p>Metal-detector performance depends heavily on the sensor head. Errors in coil placement within the head can lead to degradation in detector performance. Electromagnetic modelling of typical very-low-frequency detector heads shows the effect of coil placement errors on detector sensitivity. Provided the bucking coil ‘tracks’ the receive coil, required error corrections can remain small. A correctly-aligned head could detect a gold ring target at a range of about 12 cm.</p></abstract>

Metal-detector performance depends heavily on the sensor head. Errors in coil placement within the head can lead to degradation in detector performance. Electromagnetic modelling of typical very-low-frequency detector heads shows the effect of coil placement errors on detector sensitivity. Provided the bucking coil ‘tracks’ the receive coil, required error corrections can remain small. A correctly-aligned head could detect a gold ring target at a range of about 12 cm.

Effects of Placement Errors on Performance of VLF Metal Detector Heads

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Metal-detector performance depends heavily on the sensor head. Errors in coil placement within the head can lead to degradation in detector performance....

Effects of Placement Errors on Performance of VLF Metal Detector Heads

Published Online: Dec 03, 2011

Page range: 675 - 685

Received: Nov 11, 2011

Accepted: Nov 30, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-462

© 2011 Lawrence J. Carter et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.