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GNSS BASED ATTITUDE DETERMINATION SYSTEMS FOR NANOSATELLITES

2014
Conference Papers

Abstract

Attitude determination systems based on global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) present several advantages, most of all, for very small satellites. GNSS receivers have low power consumption, limited mass, small volume, and are rel-atively inexpensive. However, if the attitude information is extracted from the relative position between two or more GNSS antennas placed on the nanosatellite, due to the small baseline between them, the achievable accuracy will not be as good as the one obtained with other high performance attitude sensors. In order to circumvent the accuracy limitation, an alternative single-antenna GNSS-based method is presented, which estimates attitude information through the use of the GNSS-derived accelerations.

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2014
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/7c09ed0c-5ab2-49b7-bc6c-2b5c71b16567

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Spacecraft attitude control is the process of controlling the orientation of a spacecraft (vehicle or satellite) with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity such as the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc. Controlling vehicle attitude requires sensors to measure vehicle orientation, actuators to apply the torques needed to orient the vehicle to a desired attitude, and algorithms to command the actuators based on (1) sensor measurements of the current attitude and (2) specification of a desired attitude.

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