Small satellite attitude control based on a Kalman filter

Author

Clements, Robert ; Tavares, P. ; Lima, Pedro

Author_Institution

Inst. de Sistemas e Robotica, Inst. Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

84

Abstract

Describes the development of an extended Kalman filter attitude estimator and its implementation in a small satellite control loop. Sensor models have first been added to an existing satellite simulation. The attitude and angular velocities are estimated from the available sensors and methods of tuning the filter based on genetic algorithms are discussed. Simulation results are presented for the estimator algorithm used with different control algorithms

Keywords

Kalman filters; artificial satellites; attitude control; closed loop systems; filtering theory; genetic algorithms; magnetometers; nonlinear filters; optical sensors; angular velocities; estimator algorithm; extended Kalman filter; satellite simulation; sensor models; small satellite attitude control; Attitude control; Extraterrestrial measurements; Genetic algorithms; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic sensors; Magnetometers; Position measurement; Satellites; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rio Patras

ISSN

2158-9860

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6491-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIC.2000.882903

Filename

882903