Spacecraft relative attitude determination

• Main Authors: Goh, Shu Ting, Passerello, Chris E, Abdelkhalik, Ossama
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99562; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13047
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A method to determine the relative attitudes between three spacecraft is developed. The method requires four direction measurements between the three spacecraft. The simulation results and covariance analysis show that the method's error falls within a three sigma boundary without exhibiting an...