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Spin State Estimation of Tumbling Small Bodies

Bhaskaran, Shyam; Olson, Corwin; Russell, Ryan P.

It is expected that a non-trivial percentage of small bodies that future missions may visit are in non-principal axis rotation (i.e. "tumbling"). The primary contribution of this paper is the application of the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method to estimate the small body spin state, mass, and moments …