“…A large body of works on nonlinear observers has been devoted to attitude observer design on the Special Orthogonal group SO(3) (see (Mahony et al 2008, Berkane, Abdessameud & Tayebi 2017, Trumpf, Mahony, Hamel & Lageman 2012, Khosravian, Trumpf, Mahony & Hamel 2016, Zlotnik & Forbes 2017, Batista, Silvestre & Oliveira 2014 and the references therein) and to pose observer design on the Special Euclidean group SE(3) (see (Baldwin, Mahony, Trumpf, Hamel & Cheviron 2007, Izadi & Sanyal 2016, Hua, Zamani, Trumpf, Mahony & Hamel 2011, Wang & Tayebi 2017, Vasconcelos, Cunha, Silvestre & Oliveira 2010 and the references therein). Various refinements have been carried out to take particularities of the considered system and available sensors into account.…”