Attitude detection system for artificial satellite
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorToshiaki Yamashita
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Abstract
An attitude detection system for an artificial satellite includes an interpolator for interpolating an angular-velocity signal to generate an interpolated angular-velocity signal, a sequential Kalman filter for generating a low-frequency attitude-angle signal, and an adder for adding the low-frequency attitude-angle signal and a high-frequency attitude-angle signal generated by a high-frequency angular sensor to generate a broad-band attitude-angle signal.
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An attitude detection system for an artificial satellite comprising a telemetry data memory for storing telemetry data received from the artificial satellite, a first data extractor for extracting attitude-angle calibration data from said telemetry data memory as time-series data, a second data extractor for extracting angular-velocity data from said telemetry data memory as time-series data, an interpolator for interpolating said angular-velocity data to generate interpolated angular-velocity data, a sequential Kalman filter for generating a low-frequency attitude-angle signal from said interpolated angular-velocity data and said attitude-angle calibration data, a third extractor for extracting high-frequency attitude-angle data as time-series data from said telemetry data memory to generate a high-frequency attitude-angle signal, and an adder for adding said low-frequency attitude-angle signal and said high-frequency attitude-angle signal to generate a broad-band attitude-angle signal.
A method for detecting attitude of an artificial satellite, comprising the steps of:
- storing telemetry data received from the artificial satellite, extracting attitude-angle calibration data from said telemetry data memory as time-series data, extracting angular-velocity data from said telemetry data memory as time-series data, interpolating said angular-velocity data to generate interpolated angular-velocity data, generating a low-frequency attitude-angle signal from said interpolated angular-velocity data and said attitude-angle calibration data, extracting high-frequency attitude-angle data as time series data from said telemetry data memory to generate a high-frequency attitude-angle signal, and adding said low-frequency attitude-angle signal and said high-frequency attitude-angle signal together to generate a broad-band attitude-angle signal.
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