ATTITUDE estimation involves a two-part process: 1) estimation of a vehicle's orientation
from body measurements and known reference observations, such as line-of-sight …

This paper provides a survey of modern nonlinear filtering methods for attitude estimation.
Early applications relied mostly on the extended Kalman filter for attitude estimation. Since …

The convergence properties of popular nonlinear attitude estimators can be traced to the
choice of an attitude error function. This paper considers a nonlinear deterministic direction …

In the context of nonlinear systems, variational Bayesian filters play an important and
alternative role to sampling‐based Monte Carlo methods. Although they have been used in …

This paper is focused on the development and verification of a heat attitude model (HAM) for
satellite attitude determination. Within this context, the Sun and the Earth are considered as …

A new method is presented for the simultaneous estimation of the attitude of a spacecraft
and an N-vector of bias parameters. This method uses a probability distribution function …

Abstract Particle Filters (PFs) have been successfully used in three‐dimensional (3D) model‐
based pose estimation. Typically, these filters depend on the computation of importance …

Attitude Determination (AD) is one of the key requirements of many current and emerging
remote sensing missions. As such AD has been traditionally accomplished through a variety …

The attitude of a rigid body evolves on the three-dimensional (3-D) special orthogonal
group, and it is often estimated by measuring reference directions, such as gravity or …

An adaptive quaternion particle filter (QPF) based on the generalized likelihood ratio test
(GLRT) is proposed for aircraft attitude estimation in the presence of an anomalous …