Title :
Observation of a rigid body from measurement of a principal axis
Author :
Kang, Wei ; Krener, Arthur J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
A method for observing the attitude of a freely rotating spacecraft by measuring one of its principal axes is given. A method of determining the angular velocity from the trajectory of one of its coordinates is also given
Keywords :
parameter estimation; space vehicles; spatial variables measurement; angular velocity; attitude observation; coordinate trajectory; freely rotating spacecraft; principal axis measurement; rigid body; Angular velocity; Ellipsoids; Equations; History; Mathematics; Observability; Position measurement; Rotation measurement; Space vehicles; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1989., Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1989.70570
