Optimal-REQUEST algorithm for attitude determination

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 418-425

  Choukroun, D ^a,b,c   Bar Itzhack, I Y ^a,d   Oshman, Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Faculty of Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SPACECRAFT; STATE SPACE METHODS; WHITE ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ATTITUDE DETERMINATION (AD); MODEL EQUATIONS; SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS; VECTOR MEASUREMENTS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 2642539345     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.10337     Document Type: Article

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