A simple attitude unscented Kalman filter: Theory and evaluation in a magnetometer-only spacecraft scenario

MS Challa, JG Moore, DJ Rogers - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , lost-in-space”, wherein the spacecraft attitude as well the gyro bias vector are unknown at
… -corrupted noisy gyro are input to the Kalman filter. We assume that the magnetometer is well-…

Unscented Kalman filter for spacecraft attitude estimation and calibration using magnetometer measurements

GF Ma, XY Jiang - 2005 International Conference on Machine …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… unscented Kalman filter (UKF) in an attempt to solve the spacecraft attitude estimation and
… Three-component Rodrigues parameters are used to describe attitude vector, which avoids …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of Kalman filter and optimal smoother estimates of spacecraft attitude

J Sedlak - NASA CONFERENCE PUBLICATION, 1994 - books.google.com
… as well as past measurements in each estimate. This paper investigates whether such … to
spacecraft attitude determination. Tests are performed both with actual spacecraft data from the …

Square-root adaptive cubature Kalman filter with application to spacecraft attitude estimation

X Tang, J Wei, K Chen - 2012 15th International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kalman filter is proposed to estimate the spacecraft attitude … noise estimation with the
square-root cubature Kalman filter, which … We start the spacecraft attitude estimation by defining …

Robust adaptive smooth variable structure Kalman filter for spacecraft attitude estimation

R Liu, M Liu, G Duan, X Cao - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
filter that combines smooth variable structure filter and extended Kalman filter for the spacecraft
attitude estimation with … The proposed filter employs the extended Kalman filter based on …

Adaptive Huber-based Kalman filtering for spacecraft attitude estimation

W Li, M Liu, D Duan - … of the Institute of Measurement and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
estimates the spacecraft attitude by processing star tracker and gyroscope data. The spacecraft
attitude estimation … of adaptive Huber-based Kalman filtering techniques, since the typical …

Unscented Kalman filter for spacecraft attitude estimation using modified Rodrigues parameters and real data

RV Garcia, N de Freitas Oliveira Matos… - Computational and …, 2016 - Springer
… In this paper, a sigma-point Kalman filter formulation for attitude estimation is derived using
… of attitude sensors. The unscented Kalman filter algorithm is used for attitude estimation and …

Adaptive tuning of the unscented Kalman filter for satellite attitude estimation

HE Soken, S Sakai - Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
… There are many examples in the literature where UKF has been used as a spacecraft attitude
estimation algorithm. Crassidis and Markley (2003) employed it as a state estimator, while …

[HTML][HTML] Unscented Kalman filter for determination of spacecraft attitude using different attitude parameterizations and real data

RV Garcia, HK Kuga, MCFPS Zanardi - Journal of Aerospace …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
… those involving the attitude estimation of spacecraft. The … Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF)
in attitude estimation problems … the standard estimator for non-linear estimation problems. …

A novel stochastically stable variational Bayesian Kalman filter for spacecraft attitude estimation

Z Qiu, J Zhang - International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… In Section 5, using spacecraft attitude estimation as the basis, we demonstrate how the
proposed VBKF algorithm can be used to construct a novel solution. The benefits of the …