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Nevertheless, in order to develop a portable safety protection instrument with an effective electric field warning function for working staff in a high-voltage environment, it is necessary to study the influence of an approaching human body on the measurement of an electric field and to correct the measurement results. A single-shaft electric field measuring instrument called the Type LP-2000, which was developed by our research team, is used as the research object in this study. First, we explain the principle of electric field measurement and describe the capacitance effect produced by the human body. Through a theoretical analysis, we show that the measured electric field value decreases as a human body approaches. Their relationship is linearly proportional. Then, the ratio is identified as a correction coefficient to correct for the influence of human body proximity. The conclusion drawn from the theoretical analysis is proved via simulation. The correction coefficient kb = 1.8010 is obtained on the basis of the linear fitting of simulated data. Finally, a physical experiment is performed. When no human is present, we compare the results from the Type LP-2000 measured with Narda EFA-300 and the simulated value to verify the accuracy of the Type LP-2000. For the case of an approaching human body, the correction coefficient kb* = 1.9094 is obtained by comparing the data measured with the Type LP-2000 to the simulated value. The correction coefficient obtained from the experiment (i.e., kb*) is highly consistent with that obtained from the simulation (i.e., kb). Two experimental programs are set; under these programs, the excitation voltages and distance measuring points are regulated to produce different electric field intensities. Using kb = 1.9094, the corrected measurement of electric field intensity can accurately reflect the original environmental electric field intensity, and the maximal error is less than 6% in all the data comparisons. These results verify the effectiveness of our proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16060859","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,10]],"date-time":"2016-06-10T07:37:41Z","timestamp":1465544261000},"page":"859","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Influence and Correction from the Human Body on the Measurement of a Power-Frequency Electric Field Sensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Dongping","family":"Xiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment &amp; System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}]},{"given":"Huaitong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment &amp; System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment &amp; System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}]},{"given":"Yutong","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment &amp; System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}]},{"given":"Qichao","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment &amp; System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ztoupis, I.N., Gonos, I.F., and Stathopulos, I.A. 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