Stochastic star identification

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1283-1286

  Udomkesmalee, Suraphol ^a   Alexander, James W ^a   Tolivar, Aurelio F ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPACECRAFT; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; IDENTIFICATION CRITERION; SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 0028546604     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.21345     Document Type: Article

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