Calibration and attitude determination with Redundant Inertial Measurement Units

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 743-752

  Pittelkau, Mark E ^a,b  

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

^b Guidance and Control Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACECRAFT;

ANGULAR RATES; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; INTERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS; SPATIAL DIMENSIONS;

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

EID: 22944457259     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.7040     Document Type: Article

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