An efficient and robust singular value method for star pattern recognition and attitude determination

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 115, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 495-508

  Juang, Jer Nan ^a   Kim, Hye Young ^b   Junkins, John L ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAR CAMERAS; STAR PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS; VECTORS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1542359498     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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