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HindawiPublishingCorporation MathematicalProblemsinEngineering Volume2012,ArticleID596396,10pages doi:10.1155/2012/596396 ResearchArticle AnalysisofAttitudeDetermination MethodsUsing GPSCarrierPhaseMeasurements LeandroBaroni andHe′lioKoitiKuga 1 2 1InstituteofScience,Engineering andTechnology,FederalUniversity ofJequitinhonha and MucuriValleys(UFVJM), RuadoCruzeiro,1,39803-371 Te′o?loOtoni,MG,Brazil 2SpaceMechanics andControlDivision(DMC),NationalInstituteforSpaceResearch(INPE), 12227-010 S?aoJos′edosCampos,SP,Brazil Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoH′elioKoitiKuga,hkakinha@ Received15November 2011;Accepted 19January2012 Academic Editor:SilviaMariaGiuliattiWinter Copyright q2012L.BaroniandH.K.Kuga. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. If three or more GPS antennas are mounted properly on a platform and di?erences of GPS signals measurements are collected simultaneously, the baselines vectors between antennas can bedetermined andtheplatform orientation de?ned bythesevectors canbecalculated. Thus,the prerequisite forattitude determination technique based onGPS istocalculate baselines between antennas to millimeter level of accuracy. For accurate attitude solutions to be attained, carrier phase double di?erences are used as main type of measurements. The use of carrier phase measurements leads to the problem of precise determination of the ambiguous integer number ofcyclesintheinitialcarrierphaseintegerambiguity.Inthisworktwoalgorithms LSASTand LAMBDA were implemented and tested for ambiguity resolution allowing accurate real-time attitude determination using measurements given by GPS receivers in coupled form. Platform orientation was obtained using quaternions formulation, and the results showed that LSAST method performance issimilar toLAMBDA asfar