Adaptive Tuning of the Unscented Kalman Filter for Satellite Attitude Estimation

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2015-05-01

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Söken, Halil Ersin

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Determining the process noise covariance of the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is a difficult procedure. The analytical approximation method gives satisfactory results in certain cases, but it fails when generalized for the estimation of the extended states, such as the case that sensor biases or scale factors are included in the state vector. The main aim of this research is to find an appropriate tuning algorithm for the process noise covariance of the UKF when the magnetometer biases are estimated, as well as attitude and gyro biases. In this sense, an adaptive tuning method for an UKF that is used for satellite attitude estimation is given and the adaptive UKF algorithm is tested in various scenarios for the attitude and sensor bias estimation. The given adaptation method is an easy way of tuning the filter, especially in the absence of any analytical approximation for the calculation of the process noise covariance, and the performed simulations show that by using the adaptive UKF, it is possible to get accurate estimates that are close to optimal. (C) 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Mechanical Engineering, General Materials Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/69777

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JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

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https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)as.1943-5525.0000412

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H. E. Söken, “Adaptive Tuning of the Unscented Kalman Filter for Satellite Attitude Estimation,” JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/69777.