Averaging quaternions

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 127 PART 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1675-1682

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

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

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*

^d ITU Ayazaga Campus   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE ESTIMATIONS; ATTITUDE MATRIXES; EIGENVALUE/EIGENVECTOR DECOMPOSITIONS; GENERAL WEIGHTS; SCALAR WEIGHTS; WEIGHTED SUMS;

MECHANICS; SPACE FLIGHT;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 55849129293     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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