Peter Traneus Anderson

Peter Traneus Anderson is an electrical engineer and inventor in the field of electromagnetic 3D tracking. He created the Model 1 6DOF electromagnetic tracker and started the Open Source Electromagnetic Trackers project. He was previously employed by Polhemus.

He completed a PhD at the University of Vermont on electromagnetic tracking systems.

Patents[edit]

U.S. patent 5,640,170 (Polhemus)
US5640170A - polhemus - Position and orientation measuring system having anti-distortion source configuration
US7715898B2 - System and method for employing multiple coil architectures simultaneously in one electromagnetic tracking system
US7834621B2 - Electromagnetic tracking employing scalar-magnetometer^[1]
US7907701B2 - Electromagnetic coil array integrated into antiscatter grid^[2]
US7911202B2 - Electromagnetic tracking method and system
US8249689B2 - Coil arrangement for electromagnetic tracking method and system^[3]
US8391952B2 - Coil arrangement for an electromagnetic tracking system
US7902817B2 - Electromagnetic tracking method and system
US7573258B2 - Coil arrangement for electromagnetic tracker method and system
US20090115406A1 - System and method for minimizing mutual inductance coupling between coils in an electromagnetic tracking system
US20100113917A1 - magnetoresistance
US20090085807A1 - Coil array for an electromagnetic tracking system
US20080174303A1 - Anti-distortion electromagnetic sensor method and system
US20060262029A1 - Method for fabricating an antenna
US7640121B2 - System and method for disambiguating the phase of a field received from a transmitter in an electromagnetic tracking system
US20090085559A1 - System and method for minimizing electromagnetic field distortion in an electromagnetic tracking system
US20080027311A1 - Electromagnetic tracking system using resonant transponder using self-resonance of coil