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Abstract Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most common way for navigation. However, it needs a direct connection to a satellite, which is not applicable inside buildings. This could be crucial in case of firefighting or catastrophes. Thus, a backup aiding system is needed to do this function when GPS is either unreliable or unavailable. Microelectormechanical System (MEMS) sensor-based can provide navigation accurately. The overall Navigation system will be Aided MEMSbased inertial navigation that uses Dead Reckoning (DR) technique to calculate current position and velocity relative to an initial reference frame (position, velocity). This backup system is called Inertia Measurement Unit (IMU) and it is consist of an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a magnetometer.MEMS-based magnetometers score high in miniaturization, compared to other existing technologies and have high potential to be integrated with CMOS. Thus, they provide a low cost integrated electronic compass system. |