Its sensors are used for attitude determination and its camera for Earth observation.
What does AD stand for?
AD stands for Attitude Determination
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The relatively conservative outlook of those who attend religious services frequently and have strong religious affiliation seems to be consistent with a sociopolitical model of attitude determination.
Examples of specific topics include recognizing nonverbal affective behavior in humanoid robots, ambiguity in robot learning from demonstration, simulating robotic auditory environments, object search on a mobile robot using relational spatial information, representing spatial knowledge in mobile cognitive systems, autonomous relative navigation and attitude determination using vector measurement, selection of parameters and algorithms in multiple-goal task realization, and a thermodynamic framework for robot colony control.
Other topics covered include differential games, the use of chaos indicators in rigid body motion, and single-point optimal attitude determination using modified Rodrigues parameters.