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CONTENTS


(Volume 115, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences,
The John L. Junkins Astrodynamics Symposium, 2003)


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PREFACE     vii

KEYNOTE LECTURE    1

How Nonlinear Is It? — A Tutorial on Nonlinearity of Orbit and Attitude Dynamics (AAS 03-286), John L. Junkins and Puneet Singla    3

OPTIMIZATION AND ATTITUDE CONTROL    53

Generalized Gradient Search and Newton’s Methods for Multilinear Algebra Root-Solving and Optimization Applications (AAS 03-261), James D. Turner    55

Optimal Attitude Control for Coplanar Orbit Phasing Transfers (AAS 03-262), Christopher D. Hall and I. Michael Ross    79

The Attitude Control Problem, Re-Visited (AAS 03-263), Kamesh Subbarao    95

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION    111

Attitude Estimation or Quaternion Estimation? (AAS 03-264), F. Landis Markley    113

Ortho-Skew and Ortho-Sym Matrix Trigonometry (AAS 03-265), Daniele Mortari    129

Real Time Attitude Independent GPS Integer Ambiguity Resolution (AAS 03-266), E. Glenn Lightsey and John L. Crassidis    145

Reliable Star Pattern Identification Technique by Using Neural Networks (AAS 03-267), Kun Tae Kim and Hyochoong Bang    165

IMAGING, ROBOTICS, AND PROXIMITY OPERATIONS    177

Three-Axis Attitude Simulators for Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft (AAS 03-268), Brij N. Agrawal, Marcello Romano and Ty Martinez    179

Advances in Imaging System Architectures Through Entry Pupil Processing (AAS 03-269), David C. Hyland    193

Enabling Robot Control in Space (AAS 03-270), Steven B. Skaar    213

Stability and Control of Collective Systems (AAS 03-271), R. D. Robinett III and John E. Hurtado    223

NRL Technologies for Autonomous Inter-Space Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (AAS 03-272), Glenn Creamer, Frank Pipitone, Charmaine Gilbreath, Dexter Bird and Sam Hollander    233

ORBITS AND TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION    251

Taking Heat (AAS 03-273), Dave Sonnabend    253

The Flower Constellations (AAS 03-274),  Daniele Mortari, Matthew P. Wilkins and Christian Bruccoleri    269

Planetary Capture Using Constant Specific Impulse and Variable Power Propulsion (AAS 03-275), Dilmurat M. Azimov and Robert H. Bishop    291  

ORBIT AND ATTITUDE DYNAMICS, FORMATION FLYING, AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL    309

Orbital Motion of Tethered Satellite Systems (AAS 03-276), John E. Cochran, Jr., Nammi Choe and Jung H. Jo    311

Modeling and Control of Satellite Formations in High Eccentricity Orbits (AAS 03-277), Prasenjit Sengupta, Srinivas R. Vadali and Kyle T. Alfriend    325

Challenges and Prospects of Coulomb Spacecraft Formations (AAS 03-278), Hanspeter Schaub, Gordon G. Parker and Lyon B. King    351

Adaptive Control – A Departure from the Certainty-Equivalence Paradigm (AAS 03-279), Maruthi R. Akella    371

Variable Structure Control With Optimized Sliding Surface for Slew Maneuver (AAS 03-280), Youdan Kim, Sangbum Cho, Kiseok Kim, John L. Junkins and Hyochoong Bang    385  

ORBIT AND ATTITUDE DETERMINATION, DYNAMICS, AND NUMERICAL METHODS    397

Automated Operational Orbit Determination for the ICESat Mission (AAS 03-281), Matthew C. Meek, George H. Born, Keith S. Morris and Penina Axelrad    399

Precision Orbit and Attitude Determination for ICESat (AAS 03-282), B. Schutz, S. Bae, L. Magruder, R. Ricklefs, H. Rim, E. Silverberg, C. Webb and S. Yoon    415

Hamel Coefficients for the Rotational Motion of a Rigid Body (AAS 03-283), John E. Hurtado    427

The Accurate Element Method: A Novel Method for Integrating Ordinary Differential Equations (AAS 03-284), Maty Blumenfeld and Paul Cizmas    445

Overview of Star Tracker Technology and its Trends in Research and Development (AAS 03-285), Gwanghyeok Ju and John L. Junkins    461

A Low Cost Solid State GPS/INS Attitude Determination System (AAS 03-287), Gwanghyeok Ju, Changsun Yoo, Junghyun Lim and Iee-Ki Ahn    479

An Efficient and Robust Singular Value Method for Star Pattern Recognition and Attitude Determination (AAS 03-288), Jer-Nan Juang, Hye-Young Kim and John L. Junkins    491

APPENDICES    505

Publications of the American Astronautical Society    506

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences    507
Science and Technology Series    515
AAS History Series    522

INDEX    525

Numerical Index    527

Author Index    529