This invention discloses a self-zeroing fluxgate
current sensor, belonging to the field of
current sensor technology, aiming to solve the problem of zero-point bias error caused by the
asymmetry of amplitude or phase of the two excitation signals in existing fluxgate current sensors. It includes an
excitation signal generation circuit, two excitation cores and coils, an
adder, an adjustable bandpass filter, an amplitude adjustment
branch, a
phase adjustment branch, a zero-adjustment controller, and a
signal conditioner. The amplitude adjustment
branch extracts the amplitude matching error of the two excitation induction signals, the
phase adjustment branch extracts the
phase deviation of the two excitation induction signals, the adjustment controller calculates the
gain adjustment value and the
phase adjustment value, and the
signal conditioner uses the
gain adjustment value and the phase adjustment value to adjust the
gain and phase of one of the excitation drive signals in a
closed loop, making the two excitation drive signals equal in amplitude and opposite in phase, directly eliminating the amplitude error and
phase error from the excitation source, realizing mutual cancellation of the fundamental wave and odd
harmonics, and fundamentally suppressing zero-point bias.