TY - GEN
T1 - Attitude determination experiment for the european student earth orbiter (ESEO) mission
AU - Geers, Martijn
AU - Rondao, Duarte
AU - Salvoldi, Manuel
AU - Choukroun, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © (2015) by Technion Israel Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - This paper describes an attitude determination experiment to be implemented on-board the ESEO satellite: An ESA sponsored LEO microsatellite to be launched in 2015 and currently under critical design review. The satellite attitude sensing suite include magnetometers (MGM), an Earth sensor (EVS), and a system of Sun sensors (SVS), each charactrized by a subdegree accuracy. The experiment will consists in running four algorithms that belong to the realms of the q-method and Kalman filtering, and implement varying sizes of state vectors for quaternion, angular velocity, and sensors' biases estimation. The sensors are activated by pairs: MGM-SVS in daylight and MGM-EVS at night. Sample runs comparatively illustrate the achievable performances - About 0.05 degree for all filters - with different dispersions and convergence times. Standard deviations plots clearly illustrate the changing observability of the parameters. A hardware testing campaign was conducted by running the algorithms on a microprocessor that is identical to the flight model. Tests successfully showed matching to numerical precision between the microprocessor-run C-code and the computer-run Matlab code. Other tests were performed to verify the correct management of telelcommand/telemetry/housekeeping data for initialization and activation of the various filters. Additional tests successfully verified the requirement on the maximum run time per cycle - 70 ms - Allocated by the on-board computer for the attitude determination experiment.
AB - This paper describes an attitude determination experiment to be implemented on-board the ESEO satellite: An ESA sponsored LEO microsatellite to be launched in 2015 and currently under critical design review. The satellite attitude sensing suite include magnetometers (MGM), an Earth sensor (EVS), and a system of Sun sensors (SVS), each charactrized by a subdegree accuracy. The experiment will consists in running four algorithms that belong to the realms of the q-method and Kalman filtering, and implement varying sizes of state vectors for quaternion, angular velocity, and sensors' biases estimation. The sensors are activated by pairs: MGM-SVS in daylight and MGM-EVS at night. Sample runs comparatively illustrate the achievable performances - About 0.05 degree for all filters - with different dispersions and convergence times. Standard deviations plots clearly illustrate the changing observability of the parameters. A hardware testing campaign was conducted by running the algorithms on a microprocessor that is identical to the flight model. Tests successfully showed matching to numerical precision between the microprocessor-run C-code and the computer-run Matlab code. Other tests were performed to verify the correct management of telelcommand/telemetry/housekeeping data for initialization and activation of the various filters. Additional tests successfully verified the requirement on the maximum run time per cycle - 70 ms - Allocated by the on-board computer for the attitude determination experiment.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84939502901
T3 - 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2015
SP - 677
EP - 705
BT - 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2015
PB - Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
T2 - 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2015
Y2 - 25 February 2015 through 26 February 2015
ER -