Constraint in attitude estimation Part II: Unconstrained estimation

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-101

  Shuster, Malcolm D ^a  

^a Acme Spacecraft Company   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KALMAN FILTERING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPACECRAFT; VECTORS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; COST FUNCTION; UNCONSTRAINED ESTIMATION; CONSTRAINED ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION PROCESS; GLOBAL CONVER-GENCE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INVERSE COVARIANCE; ORTHOGONALITY CONSTRAINTS; QUATERNION ESTIMATIONS;

SPACE FLIGHT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 1242308427     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03546316     Document Type: Article

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