Uniform attitude probability distributions

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-475

  Shuster, Malcolm D ^a  

^a Acme Spacecraft Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; RIEMANNIAN MATRICS; RODRIGUES VECTORS; ATTITUDE REPRESENTATION; DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION; GENERAL EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL LITERATURE; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); UNIVERSAL EXPRESSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISKS; SPACE FLIGHT; VECTORS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 11444250446     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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