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Practical Uncertainty Quantification in Orbital Mechanics

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The chapter provides an overview of methods to quantify uncertainty in orbital mechanics. It also provides an initial classification of these methods with particular attention to whether the quantification method requires a knowledge of the system model or not. For some methods the chapter provides applications examples and numerical comparisons on selected test cases.

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Acknowledgements

The work in this chapter was partially supported by the FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN Stardust, grant agreement 317185 and by the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 UTOPIAE, grant agreement 722734. The author would like to acknowledge the work of all the PhD students who worked on the generation of the results in this chapter: Chiara Tardioli, Carlos Ortega, Martin Kubicek, Massimo Vetrisano.

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Vasile, M. (2019). Practical Uncertainty Quantification in Orbital Mechanics. In: Baù, G., Celletti, A., Galeș, C., Gronchi, G. (eds) Satellite Dynamics and Space Missions. Springer INdAM Series, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20633-8_7

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