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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 …