Kalman filtering for relative spacecraft attitude and position estimation

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-143

  Kim, Son Goo ^a,c,d,e   Crassidis, John L ^a,c,e   Cheng, Yang ^a,c,e   Fosbury, Adam M ^a,c,e   Junkins, John L ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d Attitude and Orbit Control Team   (South Korea)

^e AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE KINEMATICS; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL SENSORS; POSITION CONTROL;

GYRO BIASES; GYRO MEASUREMENTS; POSITION ESTIMATION; POSITIONAL DYNAMICS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33846883282     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.22377     Document Type: Article

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