Abstract
The paper describes the design and development of an autonomous, low-cost, low-power, low-mass attitude sensor, that requires no computational resources from the On-Board Computer. Application domain is small satellites (micro-and nano-satellites). We propose the integration of two sensors, an APS-based (Active Pixels Sensor) Star Tracker and a MEMS-based (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) Rate Gyroscope, integrate into a single unit that can operate in single or combined mode. The star sensor allows to determine both relative and absolute satellite attitude. Special care has been made to optimize the attitude data computation by the data fusion from the two sensors, aiming to obtain an accuracy of 0.1° of resolution in real-time attitude determination.
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