Image-based attitude propagation for small satellites using RANSAC

Samir A. Rawashdeh; James E. Lumpp

doi:10.1109/TAES.2014.120808

Image-based attitude propagation for small satellites using RANSAC

Samir A. Rawashdeh, James E. Lumpp

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

This work develops a star-based attitude propagator that uses relative motion of stars in an imager's field of view to infer the motion of a satellite by calculating relative attitude estimates in three degrees of freedom. Algorithms to perform the star detection, correspondence using the random sample consensus (RANSAC), and attitude propagation are presented. The work presented here overviews the approach, describes the developed algorithms, evaluates experimental results, and offers component selection for a CubeSat imaging system.

Original language	English
Article number	6965744
Pages (from-to)	1864-1875
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume	50
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2014.120808
State	Published - Jul 1 2014

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Keywords

Cameras
Extraterrestrial measurements
Gyroscopes
Position measurement
Satellites
Sensors
Vectors

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Aerospace Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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