UKF based in-flight calibration of magnetometers and rate gyros for pico satellite attitude determination

H. E. Soken, Ch Hajiyev

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Abstract

In this paper an Unscented Kalman filter based procedure for the bias estimation of both the magnetometers and the gyros, which are carried onboard by a pico satellite, is proposed. At the initial phase, biases of three orthogonally located magnetometers are estimated as well as the attitude and attitude rates of the satellite. During initial period after the orbit injection, gyro measurements are accepted as bias free since the precise gyros are working accurately and the accumulated gyro biases are negligible. At the second phase, estimated constant magnetometer bias components are taken into account and the algorithm is run for the estimation of the gyro biases that are cumulatively increased by time. As a result, six different bias terms for two different sensors are obtained in two stages where attitude and attitude rates are estimated regularly. For both estimation phases of the procedure Unscented Kalman Filter is used as the estimation algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication17th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems, ICINS 2010 - Proceedings
EditorsD.O. Taranovskiy, Vladimir G. Peshekhonov
PublisherState Research Center of the Russian Federation
Pages233-240
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9785900780856
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event17th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems, ICINS 2010 - Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: 31 May 20102 Jun 2010

Publication series

Name17th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems, ICINS 2010 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference17th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems, ICINS 2010
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySaint Petersburg
Period31/05/102/06/10

Keywords

  • Attitude determination
  • Bias
  • Gyro
  • Magnetometer
  • Unscented Kalman filter

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