Orbital Calibration of Microsatellite Magnetometers Using a Linear Kalman Filter

Hajiyev C.

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES, vol.58, no.9, pp.1037-1043, 2015 (Peer-Reviewed Journal) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 58 Issue: 9
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s11018-015-0838-4
  • Journal Name: MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1037-1043

Abstract

The magnetometer zero drift is estimated using a linear Kalman filter. An algorithm for calibrating the magnetometer using the parameters characterizing the dynamics of the rotational motion of a picosatellite is proposed.