Many aerospace problems include the requirement for precision pointing and tracking from one accelerating vehicle to another. This paper considers the use of Kalman filtering for a general class of high precision pointing and tracking applications and the application of the general framework to a specific problem. A general framework which contains all known error sources is developed for a particular Kalman filter. With a covariance sensitivity analysis, this framework can be used to determine the performance of a reduced order filter and conduct a hardware requirements analysis and trade off. In particular, the paper addresses the application of the general framework for an aircraft to satellite precision tracking problem.


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    Title :

    Filtering for Precision Pointing and Tracking with Application for Aircraft to Satellite Tracking


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    Publication date :

    1975


    Size :

    39 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English