Orbit Determination

During my summer internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I applied Kalman filtering to an orbit determination problem. My algorithm used a 6-dimensional Unscented Kalman filter to predict satellite trajectory using GPS data collected on the satellite. The new method showed improvements in accuracy and availability when compared with the standard alternative methods.

I presented my research at a poster conference and published a technical report to the Department of Energy information database.

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