Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Aeronautical vehicle
Patent
1997-06-26
2000-04-04
Louis-Jacques, Jacques H.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Aeronautical vehicle
701 8, 701 3, 244164, 244165, 244171, 250330, 73 10, 73 179, G06F 770, B64G 124
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ABSTRACT:
Spacecraft attitude is efficiently controlled by utilizing spatial noise and temporal noise in the calculation of gains to a Kalman filter. Spatial noise is modeled in a dynamic fashion so as to provide optimal spatial noise attenuation.
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Didinsky Garry
Hein Douglas H.
Wu Yeong-Wei Andy
Hughes Electronics Corporation
Louis-Jacques Jacques H.
Sales Michael W.
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