Magnetic Localization of the Queen Bee in the Hive

Now the method on looking for the queen bee is not only workload-intensive, time-consuming but also low-efficiency. In order to locate the queen bee in the hive in real time, a localization system was designed under visual studio.net platform by using magnetic localization technology. The system detected the measurement of the magnetic field produced by the permanent magnet, collect the pre-treatment data after eliminate the influence of the geomagnetic field and correct the orthogonality of three-axis magnetic sensor, then using the nonlinear least squares algorithm obtained the optimal value of the space position of the permanent magnet. The localization results could be displayed and saved. The experimental results showed that this magnetic localization system could effective locate the queen in the hive.