• DocumentCode
    2972963
  • Title

    Gravity gradient measurements

  • Author

    Sonnabend, D. ; McEneaney, W.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    7-9 Dec 1988
  • Firstpage
    860
  • Abstract
    It is shown that, for floated satellite gravity gradiometers subject to very low levels of unmodeled forces and torques, dynamic estimation can dramatically reduce rotation correction errors. The filter structure is developed, and the value of factorization techniques is examined. Numerical examples are given for a few practical cases using plausible instrument ensembles. To achieve these early results, great simplifications have been made, and important error sources have been suppressed
  • Keywords
    aerospace instrumentation; gravimeters; factorization techniques; filter structure; floated satellite gravity gradiometers; gradient measurements; rotation correction errors; Accelerometers; Coordinate measuring machines; Force measurement; Gravity; Instruments; Measurement standards; Position measurement; Q measurement; Tensile stress; Velocity measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 1988., Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Austin, TX
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.1988.194433
  • Filename
    194433