control
Elham Kowsari; Hadi Makarem
Abstract
Star tracker is one of the most important devices used on satellites for attitude determination. Since its output is discontinuous, it needs to be aided to complement its discontinuity. Using gyroscope unit is the most suitable choice for aiding the star tracker. However, using these two kinds of sensor ...
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Star tracker is one of the most important devices used on satellites for attitude determination. Since its output is discontinuous, it needs to be aided to complement its discontinuity. Using gyroscope unit is the most suitable choice for aiding the star tracker. However, using these two kinds of sensor simultaneously has some challenges. In other words, not only biases lead to low accuracy in the attitude determination, but also the installation error has a significant effect on the accuracy. In this paper after presenting the important role of installation errors between star tracker and gyroscope in the accuracy of attitude determination, an effective method is proposed to determine the misalignment error between these two sensors which is based only on their measurements, and the mathematical formulation is presented in detail. Then, to validate the performance of the proposed method, it is implemented to calculate the instantiation error of an experimental dataset gathered in the Mount Pooladkaf, for which the results are reported.
Flight dynamics
Behrooz Raeisy; Fatemeh Ghofrani
Abstract
Various sensors can be used to attitude determination of a satellite, including the Earth Horizon Sensor. These sensors generally divided into two static and scanning types. In the static type, a two-dimensional array or several linear arrays capture instantly the Earth image information to attitude ...
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Various sensors can be used to attitude determination of a satellite, including the Earth Horizon Sensor. These sensors generally divided into two static and scanning types. In the static type, a two-dimensional array or several linear arrays capture instantly the Earth image information to attitude determination. In the scanning type sensors, a narrow-band optical beam mechanically sweeps a ring of space to find the crossing point of the beam to the Earth using a single spot detector. In this research, a new algorithm for a static earth horizon sensor with a two-dimensional array is presented. The algorithm does not need elevation of the sensor and this is the main advantage with respect to old ones. To extract the equations, a tangent vectors from the aperture of the pine-hole camera to the Earth is considered and this vector is extracted in two different body coordinates and base coordinates that are connected to the ground. By equating the two, an equation with three unknowns of pitch, roll and elevation is obtained. The equation is satisfied by each pixel on the Earth horizon Thus; the system of equations is formed by the number of the Earth horizon pixels in the camera image and by numerical solving of the equations unknown parameters are estimated.
