STAR-CONFIGURATION SEARCHING FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDE COMPUTATION

Authors
BALDINI D BARNI M FOGGI A BENELLI G MECOCCI A
Citation
D. Baldini et al., STAR-CONFIGURATION SEARCHING FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDE COMPUTATION, IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, 31(2), 1995, pp. 768-777
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Telecommunications,"Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Aerospace Engineering & Tecnology
Journal title
IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189251
Volume
31
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
768 - 777
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9251(1995)31:2<768:SSFSAC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A star pattern recognition algorithm is described which recovers attit ude information by processing data obtained from a modular star sensor (MOSS) mounted on a spacecraft Information is obtained by matching th e stars detected by the MOSS with those inside a stellar catalogue. Th e system performance has been evaluated both from the point of view of computation time and error probability. The effect of errors in the M OSS measurements and multiple matches cases are also discussed.