Quest and the anti-quest: Good and evil attitude estimation

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-351

  Cheng, Yang ^a   Shuster, Malcolm D ^b  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b Acme Spacecraft Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; BACK-UP ALGORITHM; QUEST MEASUREMENT MODEL; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION ALGORITHMS; BACK UP; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT MODEL; QUEST ALGORITHM;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPACE FLIGHT; ASTRONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33646386708     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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