Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have become the mainstay in human motion evaluation
outside of the laboratory; however, quantification of 3-dimensional upper limb motion using …

Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems by Hanspeter Schaub and John Junkins is a
comprehensive treatment of a stimulating and challenging subject that is both old and new …

This paper contains a critical comparison of estimators minimizing Wahba's loss function.
Some new results are presented for the QUaternion ESTimator (QUEST) and Estimators of …

The parameterization of rotations is a central topic in many theoretical and applied fields
such as rigid body mechanics, multibody dynamics, robotics, spacecraft attitude dynamics …

A new highly robust algorithm, called Pyramid, is presented to identify the stars observed by
star trackers in the general lost‐in‐space case, where no a priori estimate of pointing is …

The most robust estimators minimizing Wahba's loss function are Davenport's q method and
the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method. The q method is faster than the SVD …

The need to estimate the orientation between frames of reference is crucial in spacecraft
navigation. Robust algorithms for this type of problem have been built by following algebraic …

Quaternions of rotation have become popular for the purpose of attitude parametrization
because they yield a minimal parameter global attitude representation and describe the …

This article is adapted from my Brouwer lecture of February 2001 [1]. It has been shortened
by about one quarter and updated. Given the occasion (in 2001) I had thought it …

In the last decade, the new space economy has underlined the importance of the space
sector for public and private actors. Advances in CubeSats technologies allowed …