Sensitivity analysis of extended and unscented kalman filters for attitude estimation

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 131-143

  Rhudy, Matthew ^a   Gu, Yu ^a   Gross, Jason ^a,b   Gururajan, Srikanth ^a   Napolitano, Marcello R ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL FLIGHT DATA; ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; CALIBRATION ERROR; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; NONLINEAR STATE ESTIMATION; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; STATE ESTIMATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876033102     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 19403151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.54899     Document Type: Article

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