Attitude estimation or quaternion estimation?

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 221-238

  Markley, F Landis ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EULER SYMMETRIC PARAMETERS; QUATERNION; SPACE PRECISE ATTITUDE REFERENCE SYSTEM (SPARS); SPECIAL ORTHOGONAL GROUP; ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; ATTITUDE REPRESENTATION; DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERIZATION; FILTERING STRATEGIES; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; MEASUREMENT MODEL; QUATERNION ESTIMATIONS; QUATERNION REPRESENTATION;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HAMILTONIANS; KALMAN FILTERING; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ASTRONOMY;

SPACECRAFT; KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 14744303913     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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