Geometric Descent Algorithms for Attitude Determination Using GPS
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This paper describes a set of numerical optimization algorithms for solving the GPS based attitude determination problem We pose the problem as one of minimizing the function tr N Q W with respect to SO where N Q andW are given matrices The method of steepest descent and Newton s method are generalized to SO by taking advantage of its Lie group structure Analytic solutions to the line search procedure are also derived Results of numerical experiments for the class of geometric descent algorithms proposed here are presented
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