This chapter provides an introduction to attitude determintation and rate estimation. We focus on principles and general ideas rather than advanced algorithms. The latter can be found in many excellent references, some of them are listed in the literature section, e.g., publications by Markley or Crassidis. Attitude determination is usually based on sensors that provide unit vector measurements. We present basic algorithms for several application cases. Rate estimation can be supported by attitude measurements, which is addressed next. Finally, a brief introduction to observation and filtering for attitude and rate estimation is presented.


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    Title :

    Rotational State Determination


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    Publication date :

    2022-04-16


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    20 pages




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    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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