A Novel Attitude Representation in View of Spacecraft Attitude Reconstruction using Temperature Data

Posielek, Tobias; Reger, Johann

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.10.404

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“…Proof: The derivation of the transformation and its properties are given in [13]. The main advantage of the representation (θ, ϑ 1 , ϑ 2 ) is that its domain is euclidean and that its first variable describes the angle between r and n which can be used to reduce the order of the non-linear system.…”

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“…The main advantage of the representation (θ, ϑ 1 , ϑ 2 ) is that its domain is euclidean and that its first variable describes the angle between r and n which can be used to reduce the order of the non-linear system. The second and third variable ϑ 1 and ϑ 2 both correspond to rotations which are visualised in [13]. However, their interpretation is less straightforward than that of θ as previous rotations are required to be performed beforehand.…”

Section: B Inversionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This work is the first contribution which introduces an observer that estimates the complete attitude of a spacecraft using only a single temperature measurement. It is based on the results of [12] and [13] which give the underlying observability analysis and attitude transformation of the observer.…”

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confidence: 99%

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This article proposes a method that uses only a single temperature measurement and angular velocity measurements to estimate the attitude of a spacecraft under the influence of solely infrared irradiation. The system governing the dynamics is highly non-linear with its attitude being defined in the quaternion space. The resulting observability mapping is used to transform the system into a canonical observability form. However, this mapping is not bijective, and a method to find the arising local inverses is proposed. The reconstruction algorithm itself is divided into two separate parts and uses the canonical form. The first part carries out the dynamic estimation of the temperature and its derivatives. The second part uses these derivatives to estimate the attitude by solving a system of non-linear equations. The proposed algorithm achieves the desired results under the assumption that a suitable initial guess of the attitude is available. Numerical simulations show the validity of the algorithm and illustrate errors induced by measurement noise.

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Section: B Inversionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Inversionmentioning

confidence: 99%