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Navigation of Student Satellite in LEO with Minimal Sensors

  • Zohaib Wahab Memon*
  • , Syed Jahanzeb Hussain Pirzada
  • , Fu Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the growing demand for student satellites in Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) for imaging applications. The constraints such as size, mass, development time, and budget limit the options of navigation equipment. A navigation system is proposed in this paper for attitude and orbit determination based on highly dynamic Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG). Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is chosen to fuse the sensor measurements. The pre-processed and biased sensor data is simulated, and EKF is integrated to estimate the Position, Velocity, and Attitude while simultaneously estimating bias of Gyroscope. The performance of the system is evaluated by comparing the estimated and measured results with the truth data, which is biased with random noise to simulate the sensor measurements and provide the basis for gaussian white noise assumptions. This paper proposes an integrated and low-cost navigation system for future student satellites. The proposed GPS-FOG-EKF navigation system can be developed on commercially available and cheaper onboard computers such as 8051-microcontroller with a very short development time by taking advantage of the simple algebraic nature of EKF.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Guidance, Navigation and Control - Proceedings of 2020 International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, ICGNC 2020
EditorsLiang Yan, Haibin Duan, Xiang Yu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages5409-5418
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811581540
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventInternational Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, ICGNC 2020 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 23 Oct 202025 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume644 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, ICGNC 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period23/10/2025/10/20

Keywords

  • Extended kalman filter
  • Fiber optic gyro
  • Global positioning system
  • Lower earth orbit

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