The quest for better attitudes

SHUSTER, M. D. “In Quest of Better Attitudes” (Dirk Brouwer Lecture), presented as paper No. AAS-01-250 at the 11th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, February 11-14; 2001; reprinted in Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 108, December 2001, pp. 2089-2117.

SHUSTER, M. D. “Approximate Algorithms for Fast Optimal Attitude Computation,” Paper No. 78–1249, Proceedings, AIAA Guidance and Control Conference, Palo Alto, California, August 1978, pp. 88–95.

SHUSTER, M. D. and OH, S. D. “Three-Axis Attitude Determination from Vector Observations,” Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 4, No. 1, January–February 1981, pp. 70–77.

WERTZ, J. R. (ed.) Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer, New York and Berlin, 1978.

BLACK, H. D. “A Passive System for Determining the Attitude of a Satellite,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 2, July 1964, pp. 1350–1351.

SHUSTER, M. D. “A Survey of Attitude Representations,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 4, October–December 1993, pp. 439–517.

SORENSON, H. Parameter Estimation, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1980.

LERNER, G. M., HUANG, W. H., and SHUSTER, M. D. “Investigation of the AEM-A/HCMM Attitude Control System Performance,” presented as paper No. AAS-77-116 at the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, September 1977.

POTEMRA, T. A., MOBLEY, F. F., and ECKARD, F. L. (eds.) The Johns Hopkins University APL Technical Digest—Special Issue on Magsat, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1980, pp. 162–248.

SHUSTER, M. D. “Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control,” Chapter 5 in V. L. Pisacane and R. C. Moore, Fundamentals of Space Systems, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1994, pp. 245–336; second edition (with W. Dellinger): 2005, pp. 236-325.

WAHBA, G. “Problem 65-1: A Least Squares Estimate of Spacecraft Attitude,” SIAM Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, July 1965, p. 409.

MARKLEY, F. L. and MORTARI, D. “Quaternion Attitude Estimation Using Vector Observations,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 48, Nos. 2 and 3, April–September 2000, pp. 359–380.

FALLON, L. III, HARROP, I. H., and STURCH, C. R. “Ground Attitude Determination and Gyro Calibration Procedures for the HEAO Missions,” Proceedings, AIAA 17th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1979.

KEAT, J. “Analysis of Least Squares Attitude Determination Routine DOAOP,” Computer Sciences Corporation, CSC/TM-77/6034, February 1977.

DAVENPORT, P. R. “Attitude Determination and Sensor Alignment via Weighted Least Squares Affine Transformations,” NASA X-514-71-312, November 1965.

DAVENPORT, P. R. “A Vector Approach to the Algebra of Rotations with Applications,” NASA TN-D-4696, August 1968.

DIRAC, P.A.M. Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1958.

SHUSTER, M. D. “QUEST, a Longa História de um Algoritmo Rápido,” (in Portuguese) Plenary Talk, Primeiro Simpósio de Tecnologia Aeroespacial, São José dos Campos (SP), Brazil, August 1990; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos (SP), Brazil, NTI-002/91-DMC, December 1991.

SHUSTER, M. D. “Algorithms for Determining Optimal Attitude Solutions,” Computer Sciences Corporation, CSC/TM-78/6056, 1978.

SHUSTER, M. D. and FREESLAND, D. C. “The Statistics of TASTE and the Inflight Estimation of Sensor Precision,” Paper 56, Proceedings, Flight Mechanics Symposium 2005, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, October 18–20, 2005.

MURRELL, J.W. “Precision Attitude Determination for Multimission Spacecraft,” Paper AIAA 78-1248, Proceedings, AIAA Guidance and Control Conference, Palo Alto, California, August 1978, pp. 70–87.

LEFFERTS, E. J., MARKLEY, F. L., and SHUSTER, M. D. “Kalman Filtering for Spacecraft Attitude Estimation,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 5, No. 5, September–October 1982, pp. 417–429.

CHENG, Y. and SHUSTER, M. D. “QUEST and The Anti-QUEST: Good and Evil Attitude Estimation,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 53, No. 3, July–September 2005, pp. 337–351.

VAROTTO, S. E. C., ORLANDO, V., and LOPES, R.V. F. “Um procedimento para determinação da atitude de satélites artificiais utilizando técnicas de estimação ótima estática e dinâmica,” Atas, Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Belo Horizonte, 1986, pp. 946–951.

FISHER, H. L., SHUSTER, M. D., and STRIKWERDA, T. E. “Attitude Determination for the Star-Tracker Mission,” paper No. AAS-89-365, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, Stowe, Vermont, August 7–-10, 1989; Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 71, 1990, pp. 138–150.

SHUSTER, M. D. “Kalman Filtering of Spacecraft Attitude and the QUEST Model,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 3, July–September 1990, pp. 377–393; Erratum: Vol. 51, No. 3, July–September 2003, p. 359.

JAZWINSKI, A. H. Stochastic Processes and Filtering Theory, Academic Press, New York and Orlando, 1970.

SHUSTER, M. D., CHITRE, D. K., and NIEBUR, D. P. “Inflight Estimation of Spacecraft Attitude-Sensor Accuracy and Alignments,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 5, No. 4, July–August 1982, pp. 339–343.

SHUSTER, M. D., PITONE, D. S., and BIERMAN, G. J. “Batch Estimation of Spacecraft Sensor Alignments, I. Relative Alignment Estimation,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 4, October–December 1991, pp. 519–546.

SHUSTER, M. D. and PITONE, D. S. “Batch Estimation of Spacecraft Sensor Alignments, II. Absolute Alignment Estimation,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 4, October–December 1991, pp. 547–571.

SHUSTER, M. D. “Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Spacecraft Attitude,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 1, January–March 1989, pp. 79–88.

SHUSTER, M. D. “A Simple Kalman Filter and Smoother for Spacecraft Attitude,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 1, January–March 1989, pp. 89–106.

SEDLAK, J. and CHU, D. “Kalman Filter Estimation of Attitude and Gyro Bias with the QUEST Observation Model,” Paper AAS-93-297, AAS/GSFC International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, April 26–30, 1993; Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 84, 1993, pp. 683–696.

MARKLEY, F. L. “Attitude Determination Using Vector Observations and the Singular Value Decomposition,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 3, July–September 1988, pp. 245–258.

MARKLEY, F. L. “Attitude Determination Using Vector Observations: a Fast Optimal Matrix Algorithm,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 2, April–June 1993, pp. 261–280.

MORTARI, D. “Second Estimator for the Optimal Quaternion,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 23, No. 4, September–October 2000, pp. 885–888.

BRUCCOLERI, C. and MORTARI, D. “MRAD: Modified Rodrigues Vector Attitude Determination,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 54, Nos. 3 and 4, July–December 2006, pp. 383–390.

CHENG, Y. and SHUSTER, M. D. “Robustness and Accuracy of the QUEST Algorithm,” presented as paper AAS-07-102 at the AAS/AIAA 17th Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Sedona, Arizona, January 28–February 2, 2007; Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 127, 2007, pp. 41-61.

CHENG, Y. and SHUSTER, M. D. “The Speed of Attitude Estimation,” presented as paper AAS-07-105 at the AAS/AIAA 17th Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Sedona, Arizona, January 28–February 2, 2007; Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 127, 2007, pp. 101-116.

SHUSTER, M. D. and NATANSON, G.A. “Quaternion Computation from a Geometric Point of View,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 4, October–December 1993, pp. 545–556.