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Angles-Only Ekf Navigation For Hyperbolic Flybys, Iggy Matheson
Angles-Only Ekf Navigation For Hyperbolic Flybys, Iggy Matheson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Space travelers in science fiction can drop out of hyperspace and make a pinpoint landing on any strange new world without stopping to get their bearings, but real-life space navigation is an art characterized by limited information and complex mathematics that yield no easy answers. This study investigates, for the first time ever, what position and velocity estimation errors can be expected by a starship arriving at a distant star - specifically, a miniature probe like those proposed by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative arriving at Proxima Centauri. Such a probe consists of nothing but a small optical camera and a …
Analysis Of Square-Root Kalman Filters For Angles-Only Orbital Navigation And The Effects Of Sensor Accuracy On State Observability, Jason Knudsen Schmidt
Analysis Of Square-Root Kalman Filters For Angles-Only Orbital Navigation And The Effects Of Sensor Accuracy On State Observability, Jason Knudsen Schmidt
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Angles-only navigation is simple, robust, and well proven in many applications. However, it is sometimes ill-conditioned for orbital rendezvous and proximity operations because, without a direct range measurement, the distance to approaching satellites must be estimated by firing thrusters and observing the change in the target's bearing. Nevertheless, the simplicity of angles-only navigation gives it great appeal. The viability of this technique for relative navigation is examined by building a high-fidelity simulation and evaluating the sensitivity of the system to sensor errors. The relative performances of square-root filtering methods, including Potter, Carlson, and UD factorization filters, are compared to the …
Angles-Only Navigation For Autonomous Orbital Rendezvous, David Charles Woffinden
Angles-Only Navigation For Autonomous Orbital Rendezvous, David Charles Woffinden
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The proposed thesis of this dissertation has both a practical element and theoretical component which aim to answer key questions related to the use of angles-only navigation for autonomous orbital rendezvous. The first and fundamental principle to this work argues that an angles-only navigation filter can determine the relative position and orientation (pose) between two spacecraft to perform the necessary maneuvers and close proximity operations for autonomous orbital rendezvous. Second, the implementation of angles-only navigation for on-orbit applications is looked upon with skeptical eyes because of its perceived limitation of determining the relative range between two vehicles. This assumed, yet …