Book chapter · Conference paper
On-the Fly Merging of Attitude Solutions
Recent advances in autonomous attitude determination instrumentation enable even small satellites flying fully autonomous multi head star trackers providing full accurate and robust attitude information. Each sensor provides the full attitude information but for robustness and optimal usage of the available information, i.e. optimal accuracy, methods for merging such data should be investigated.
The need for and desirability of attitude merging depends on the mission objective and available resources. To enable real-time attitude control and reduce requirements on download budget, on-board merging of attitude data will often be advantageous. This should be weighted against the need for post observation reconstruction of attitudes, especially needed when end products are sensitive to optimal attitude reconstruction.
Instrument integrated merging algorithms will reduce the complexity of on-board AOCS. Methods for attitude merging are many. Two examples of merging methods taking into consideration anisotropic noise distributions are presented and discussed.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Springer |
Year: | 2008 |
Pages: | 175-183 |
Proceedings: | 6th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation |
Journal subtitle: | Selected Contributions |
ISBN: | 1281397466 , 1402069421 , 140206943X , 140206943x , 9048177723 , 9781281397461 , 9781402069420 , 9781402069437 and 9789048177721 |
Types: | Book chapter and Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4020-6943-7_16 |
ORCIDs: | Jørgensen, Peter Siegbjørn , Jørgensen, John Leif and Denver, Troelz |