Phil Palmer
University of Surrey
112 Papers
934 Citations
Phil Palmer is an academic researcher from University of Surrey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Attitude control & Satellite. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 112 publications.
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Papers
Detection and Tracking of Very Small Low Contrast Objects
D. Davies,Phil Palmer,Majid Mirmehdi +2 more
- 01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: A Kalman tracking algorithm that can track a number of very small, low contrast objects through an image sequence taken from a static camera using a combination of wavelet filtering for detection with an interest operator for testing multiple target hypotheses based within the framework of a Kalman tracker.
Practical Implementation of Attitude-Control Algorithms for an Underactuated Satellite
Nadjim Horri,Phil Palmer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the attitude stability of a satellite subject to actuator failures is proven by imposing a singular quaternion feedback law to the angular velocity trajectories, and two approaches are compared to achieve three-axis control: the first one does not require angular velocity measurements and is based on the assumption of a perfect zero momentum, while the second approach consists of tracking the desired angular velocity trajectory.
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A Performance Measure for Boundary Detection Algorithms
TL;DR: The issues involved when trying to compare the performance of algorithms which seek to find boundaries and boundary models between regions of differing mean gray-level value are discussed, and a theoretical framework for the performance measure is presented.
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An optimizing line finder using a Hough transform algorithm
TL;DR: An optimization algorithm for locating peaks in the accumulator of the Hough algorithm with robust voting kernel is presented to demonstrate the versatility of the method and the accuracy that can be achieved at little computational overhead.
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Modeling the Gravitational Potential of a Nonspherical Asteroid
TL;DR: In this article, a simple and very general approximation of the gravitational potential for a nonspherical body is presented, where the potential is expanded using spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions.
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