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This work addresses the issue through (1) a full-scale experimental setup that provides a thorough scientific perspective as well as real-world system validation and (2) a passive ferromagnetic source with (3) an unknown magnetic vector. The latter increases the numeric solution\u2019s complexity. Eight magnetometers are arranged according to a 2.5 \u00d7 2.5 m grid. Six meters above, a ferromagnetic object moves according to a well-defined path and velocity. The magnetic field recorded by the network is then analyzed by two natural computing algorithms: the genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimizer (PSO). Single- and multi-objective versions are run and compared. All the methods performed very well and were able to determine the location of the sensors within a relative error of 1 to 3%. The absolute error lies between 20 and 35 cm for the close and far sensors, respectively. 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