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Background informationThe accuracy of the Herschel's attitude measurements was notably improved along the operational phase of the mission, and further improved on-ground (see the pointing calibration sections in this web), but the attitude measurements derived on-board and down-linked (the so-called filtered attitude) were too heavily filtered and therefore resulted in a poor estimation of the high-frequency changes in the spacecraft attitude (the spacecraft pointing jitter/stability). The "gyro-based attitude reconstruction" method was devised to overcome this limitation. It combines the star tracker attitude measurements with the output from the Inertial Reference Unit (gyroscopes). | ||||||||
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< < | The accuracy of the Herschel's attitude measurements was notably improved along the operational phase of the mission, and further improved on-ground (see the pointing calibration sections in this web), but the attitude measurements derived on-board and down-linked (the so-called filtered attitude) were too heavily filtered and therefore resulted in a poor estimation of the high-frequency changes in the spacecraft attitude (the spacecraft pointing jitter/stability). The "gyro-based attitude reconstruction" method was devised to overcome this limitation. It combines the star tracker attitude measurements with the output from the Inertial Reference Unit (gyroscopes). | |||||||
> > | The accuracy of the Herschel's attitude measurements was notably improved along the operational phase of the mission, and further improved on-ground (see the pointing calibration sections in this web), but the attitude measurements derived on-board and down-linked (the so-called filtered attitude) were too heavily filtered and therefore resulted in a poor estimation of the high-frequency changes in the spacecraft attitude (the spacecraft pointing jitter/stability). The "gyro-based attitude reconstruction" method was devised to overcome this limitation. It combines the star tracker attitude measurements with the output from the Inertial Reference Unit (gyroscopes). | |||||||
As the name implies, this method places much greater weight on the measurements made by the gyros, using attitude measurements constructed from star tracker data to provide an absolute reference and to account for gyro drifts. Although it has been demonstrated that this method is able to successfully reduce the high-frequency components of the Absolute Measurement Error (AME) it neverthess suffers from a couple of drawbacks (when compared with a conventional attitude estimator) related to limitations in the calibration of gyro biases and drift rates. Software based on the gyro-based attitude reconstruction method was developed initially at the PACS ICC. The design and first prototype was implemented by H. Feuchtgruber in IDL and ported to Jython and integrated as toolbox package in HIPE 12.0, by B. Vandenbussche. Further refinements were included at the HSC and eventually ported to Java for inclusion in the Standard Product Generation (SPG) pipeline. | ||||||||
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As the name implies, this method places much greater weight on the measurements made by the gyros, using attitude measurements constructed from star tracker data to provide an absolute reference and to account for gyro drifts. Although it has been demonstrated that this method is able to successfully reduce the high-frequency components of the Absolute Measurement Error (AME) it neverthess suffers from a couple of drawbacks (when compared with a conventional attitude estimator) related to limitations in the calibration of gyro biases and drift rates. | ||||||||
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Pointing information providedThe S/C attitude information is provided within the pointing product. The most relevant columns regarding the gyro-reconstructed attitude are:
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The definitions of these two proxies of the gyro-reconstructed attitude quality are as follows:
if ((gyroAttQuality < probBad) or (gyroAttCoverage < coverageThresh)): gyroAttSuspicious = 1where probBad is the recommended threshold value for gyroAttQuality and coverageThresh is the recommended threshold for gyroAttCoverage . These parameters are also included as meta-data keywords in the pointing product. Sensible values are probThreshold = 0.0001
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< < | Despite the success achieved during the mission in improving the accuracy of the attitude measurements made by the star tracker [6, 21, 22], and later the success in further improving these measurements on-ground [7], it has been shown that the on-board attitude filter is still rather poor at following the high-frequency changes in the spacecraft attitude (i.e. the spacecraft jitter) [2, 3].1 A new method, the "gyro-based attitude reconstruction" method, was therefore proposed for combining the star tracker attitude measurements with the output from the Inertial Reference Unit (GYR) [8]. As the name implies, this method places much greater weight on the measurements made by the gyros, using attitude measurements constructed from star tracker data to provide an absolute reference and to account for gyro drifts. Although it has been demonstrated that this method is able to successfully reduce the high-frequency components of the Absolute Measurement Error (AME) it neverthess suffers from a couple of drawbacks (when compared with a conventional attitude estimator). When ‘calibrating’ the gyro measurements, firstly, only those attitude measurements close to the reference attitude may be used and, secondly, a deterministic model of the variation of the gyro drift rates must be assumed.2 Software based on the gyro-based attitude reconstruction method was first prototyped by H. Feuchtgruber and later implemented, in HIPE 12.0, by B. Vandenbussche. | |||||||
> > | The accuracy of the Herschel's attitude measurements was notably improved along the operational phase of the mission, and further improved on-ground (see the pointing calibration sections in this web), but the attitude measurements derived on-board and down-linked (the so-called filtered attitude) were too heavily filtered and therefore resulted in a poor estimation of the high-frequency changes in the spacecraft attitude (the spacecraft pointing jitter/stability). The "gyro-based attitude reconstruction" method was devised to overcome this limitation. It combines the star tracker attitude measurements with the output from the Inertial Reference Unit (gyroscopes). As the name implies, this method places much greater weight on the measurements made by the gyros, using attitude measurements constructed from star tracker data to provide an absolute reference and to account for gyro drifts. Although it has been demonstrated that this method is able to successfully reduce the high-frequency components of the Absolute Measurement Error (AME) it neverthess suffers from a couple of drawbacks (when compared with a conventional attitude estimator) related to limitations in the calibration of gyro biases and drift rates. Software based on the gyro-based attitude reconstruction method was developed initially at the PACS ICC. The design and first prototype was implemented by H. Feuchtgruber in IDL and ported to Jython and integrated as toolbox package in HIPE 12.0, by B. Vandenbussche. | |||||||
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