An autonomous celestial navigation method for LEO satellite based on unscented Kalman filter and information fusion

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 222-228

  Ning, Xiaolin ^a   Fang, Jiancheng ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Celestial navigation; Information fusion; Satellite

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; INFORMATION FUSION; KALMAN FILTERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CELESTIAL NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 33947591439     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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