This report presents an algorithm that incorporates real-time data from two infrared cameras and computes the attitude parameters of the Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (SCOLE), a laboratory apparatus representing an offset-feed antenna attached to the Space Shuttle by a flexible mast. The algorithm utilizes camera position information of three miniature LEDs, mounted on the SCOLE platform, permitting arbitrary camera placement and an on-line attitude extraction. The continuous nature of the algorithm allows identification of the placement of the two cameras with respect to some initial position of the three reference LEDs, followed by on-line six degrees of freedom attitude tracking, regardless of the attitude time history. The report provides a description of the algorithm in the camera identification mode as well as the mode of target tracking. Experimental data from a reduced-size SCOLE-like laboratory model, reflecting the performance of the camera identification and tracking processes, are presented.


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    Title :

    An algorithm for attitude identification for SCOLE using two infrared cameras


    Contributors:
    Shenhar, J. (author)

    Conference:

    VPI&SU Symposium ; 1989 ; Blacksburg, VA, United States


    Publication date :

    1989-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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