Characterizing a star tracker with built in attitude estimation algorithms under the night sky

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3086, Issue , 1997, Pages 264-274

  Bank, Thomas ^a  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous stellar attitude estimation; Star identification; Star tracker

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS STELLAR ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; BALL AEROSPACE (CO); MEASUREMENT NOISES; ORBIT PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT (QUALITY); STAR IDENTIFICATION; STAR TRACKER; STAR TRACKING;

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ESTIMATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STARS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001140233     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277200     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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4. Shuster and S. D. Oh "Three-Axis Attitude Determination From Vector Observations," Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol.4, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1981, p 70-77.