Attitude determination and calibration with redundant inertial measurement units

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 119, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 229-248

  Pittelkau, Mark E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION MANEUVERS; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; GEOMETRIC OBSERVABILITY; REDUNDANT INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS (RIMU); CALIBRATION FILTERS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT (IMU); NULL-SPACE MEASUREMENTS; SPACE INERTIAL REFERENCE UNIT (SIRU);

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REDUNDANCY; SPACECRAFT; VECTORS; KALMAN FILTERING; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS;

KALMAN FILTERING; SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 23844481635     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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