Gyroless Yaw Angle Compassing of Earth-Pointing Spacecraft Using Magnetic Sensor

  • Lee, Seon-Ho (Satellite Control System Dept., Korea Aerospace Research Institute) ;
  • Ahn, Hyo-Sung (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University) ;
  • Rhee, Seung-Wu (Satellite Control System Dept., Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
  • Published : 2004.08.25

Abstract

This paper formulates a yaw angle determination algorithm for earth-point satellite. The algorithm based on vector observation, is implemented with the limited vector measurements. The proposed algorithm doesn't require gyro measurement data but magnetic sensor measurement data. In order to confirm the usefulness of the proposed method, we investigate the simulated telemetry data of the KOMPSAT-2, a satellite that is scheduled to be launched into a 685km altitude sun synchronous circular orbit in 2005.

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