Title :
Simultaneous Calibrations of Voyager Celestial and Inertial Attitude Control Systems in Flight
Author :
Jahanshahi, M.H.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract :
A mathematical description of the data reduction technique used to simultaneously calibrate the Voyager celestial and inertial attitude control subsystems is given. It is shown that knowledge of the spacecraft limit cycle motion, as measured by the celestial and the inertial sensors, is adequate to result in the estimates of a selected number of errors which adversely affect the spacecraft attitude knowledge.
Keywords :
Attitude control; Calibration; Control systems; Detectors; Infrared spectra; Limit-cycles; Propulsion; Space vehicles; Spectroscopy; Sun;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.1982.309202