Nonlinear attitude filtering methods

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 753-784

  Markley, F Landis ^a,c,d   Crassidis, John L ^b,e   Cheng, Yang ^b,e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Guidance Navigation and Control Systems Engineering Branch   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN FILTERS; NONLINEAR FILTERING METHODS; SIGMA POINTS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 29744445965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-5927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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