SINGLE-EPOCH, SINGLE-FREQUENCY, STANDALONE FULL ATTITUDE DETERMINATION: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

Abstract

Attitude determination is the problem of estimating the orientation of an object with respect to a frame of reference. There exist a large number of sensors which can provide a platform attitude, such as gyroscopes, horizon scanners, hori-zon crossing indicators, sun sensors, star tracker, magnetometers. Already in the early years of the GPS utilization, it was proposed that the baseline observations obtained with two GPS antennae could be used as another valid instrument to