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Unscented kalman filter for spacecraft attitude estimation and calibration using magnetometer measurements

  • Guang FU Ma*
  • , Xue Yuan Jiang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper develops an unscented Kalman filter (UKF) in an attempt to solve the spacecraft attitude estimation and calibration problem based only magnetometer measurements. Three-component Rodrigues parameters are used to describe attitude vector, which avoids the singularity of the covariance matrix when using unit quaternion in attitude determination. In addition, in order to reduce computational costs of estimators, a better-behaved sigma point selection strategy of unscented transformation (UT) for UKF, spherical simplex sigma, is investigated. The UKF estimator is tested through numeric simulation of a fully actuated rigid body with only magnetometer. For comparison, an extended Kalman filter (EKF) estimator is also developed and is used to gauge the performance of UKF estimator. The results presented in this paper clearly demonstrate the UKF is superior to EKF in coping with the nonlinearity of attitude dynamics in the presence of model uncertainties.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2005
Pages506-511
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2005 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 18 Aug 200521 Aug 2005

Publication series

Name2005 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2005

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2005
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period18/08/0521/08/05

Keywords

  • Estimation
  • Magnetometer
  • Spacecraft
  • Unscented Kalman filter

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