An analysis of the quaternion attitude determination filter

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-120

  Pittelkau, Mark E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPACECRAFT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

COVARIANCE SINGULARITY; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; QUATERNION ATTITUDE DETERMINATION FILTER;

SPACE FLIGHT; COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ADDITIVE QUATERNIONS; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; CO-VARIANCE; KAIMAN FILTER; MEASUREMENT UPDATES; NONSINGULARITY; PROCESS NOISE; REDUCED ORDER;

EID: 1242286079     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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