SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DYNAMICS, DETERMINATION AND CONTROL      3 Credit Hours

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(Slashed with ENGR 48002 and ENGR 58002 ) Spacecraft rigid body dynamics in terms of direction cosine matrix, Euler angles, principal rotation vector and quaternions. Attitude determination using TRIAD, quaternion and matrix solutions to Wahba's problem and an introduction to recursive estimation and Kalman Filter. Nonlinear stability and control technique (i.e., Lyapunov Theory) is introduced and applied to the attitude stabilization and control problem.