Spacecraft angular rate estimation from magnetometer data only using an analytic predictor

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-373

  Tortora, Paolo ^a,d   Oshman, Yaakov ^b   Santoni, Fabio ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d II Facoltà di Ingegneria   (Italy)

^e Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); KALMAN FILTERING; MAGNETOMETERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ANGULAR RATE ESTIMATION; EULER'S EQUATIONS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS; MARKOV MODELING;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 2642571018     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.10332     Document Type: Article

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