UAV Attitude Estimation Using Unscented Kalman Filter and TRIAD

Adaptive UAV Attitude Estimation Employing Unscented Kalman Filter, FOAM and Low-Cost MEMS Sensors

Navigation employing low cost MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an uprising challenge. One important part of this navigation is the right estimation of the attitude angles. Most of the existent algorithms handle the sensor readings in a fixed way, leading to large errors in different mission stages like take-off aerobatic maneuvers. This paper p...

Fully Multiplicative Unscented Kalman Filter for Attitude Estimation

A New Multiplicative Unscented Kalman Filter for Attitude Estimation

Doppler and bearing tracking using fuzzy adaptive unscented Kalman filter

The topic of Doppler and Bearing Tracking (DBT) problem is to achieve a target trajectory using the Doppler and Bearing measurements. The difficulty of DBT problem comes from the nonlinearity terms exposed in the measurement equations. Several techniques were studied to deal with this topic, such as the unscented Kalman filter. Nevertheless, the performance of the filter depends directly on the...

Inexpensive Cubesat Attitude Estimation Using Quaternions and Unscented Kalman Filtering

This paper describes a quaternion implementation of an Unscented Kalman Filter for attitude estimation on CubeSats using measurements of a sun vector, a magnetic field vector and angular velocity. For faster convergence of the attitude estimate, a SVD-method solving Wahba’s problem has been proposed, which provides an initial attitude estimate. Using unit quaternions provides a singularity free...