On the covariance singularity of quaternion estimators

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 4648-4665

  Carmi, Avishy ^a,b,c   Oshman, Yaakov ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (Israel)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS;

QUATERNION ESTIMATORS; QUATERNION PARTICLE FILTERS; TAYLOR APPROXIMATIONS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 37249055928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-6814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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