John L. Crassidis, Ph.D., is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the associate director of the Center for Multisource Information Fusion at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He previously worked at Texas A&M University, the Catholic University of America, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he contributed to attitude determination and control schemes for numerous spacecraft missions. John L. Junkins, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of aerospace engineering and the founder and director of the Center for Mechanics and Control at Texas A&M University. In addition to his historical contributions in analytical dynamics and spacecraft GNC, Dr. Junkins and his team have designed, developed, and demonstrated several new electro-optical sensing technologies.
Praise for the First EditionA nice feature of this book is that it makes the effort to explain the underlying principles behind the formula for each algorithm; the relationship between different algorithms is equally well addressed. … The text is a good combination of theory and practice. It will be a valuable addition to references for academic researchers and industrial engineers working in the field of estimation. It will also serve as a useful reference for graduate courses in control and estimation. —AIAA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, January 2005