Propagation of Uncertainty in Rigid Body Attitude Flows

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dc.creatorLee, Taeyoung
dc.creatorChaturvedi, Nalin A.
dc.creatorSanyal, Amit K.
dc.creatorLeok, Melvin
dc.creatorMcClamroch, N. Harris
dc.date2007-02-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:48:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:48:48Z
dc.descriptionMotivated by attitude control and attitude estimation problems for a rigid body, computational methods are proposed to propagate uncertainties in the angular velocity and the attitude. The nonlinear attitude flow is determined by Euler-Poincaré equations that describe the rotational dynamics of the rigid body acting under the influence of an attitude dependent potential and by a reconstruction equation that describes the kinematics expressed in terms of an orthogonal matrix representing the rigid body attitude. Uncertainties in the angular velocity and attitude are described in terms of ellipsoidal sets that are propagated through this highly nonlinear attitude flow. Computational methods are proposed, one method based on a local linearization of the attitude flow and two methods based on propagation of a small (unscented) sample selected from the initial uncertainty ellipsoid. Each of these computational methods is constructed using the Lie group variational integrator algorithm, viewed as a discretization of the attitude flow dynamics. Computational results are obtained that indicate (1) the strongly nonlinear attitude flow characteristics and (2) the limitations of each of these methods, and indeed any method, in providing effective global bounds on the nonlinear attitude flow.
dc.description6 pages, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702737
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702737
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/124625
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subjectOptimization and Control
dc.titlePropagation of Uncertainty in Rigid Body Attitude Flows
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