Averaging quaternions

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1193-1197

  Markley, F Landis ^a,d,e   Cheng, Yang ^b,e,f   Crassidis, John L ^b,e,f   Oshman, Yaakov ^c,e,f,g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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

^e AIAA   (United States)

^f Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (Israel)

^g Louis and Helen Rogow Department of Aeronautical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ATTITUDE VECTOR ERRORS; MATRIX-WEIGHTED QUATERNIONS; QUATERNIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34547562363     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.28949     Document Type: Article

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