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Sensors 2009, 9, 4503-4524; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Multi-Aperture CMOS Sun Sensor for Microsatellite Attitude Determination Giancarlo Rufino * and Michele Grassi Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80 Piazzale Tecchio, 80125, Naples, Italy; E-Mail: michele.grassi@unina.it * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: giancarlo.rufino@unina.it; Tel.: +39- 0817682159; Fax: +39-0817682160 Received: 31 March 2009; in revised form: 19 May 2009/ Accepted: 26 May 2009 / Published: 9 June 2009 Abstract: This paper describes the high precision digital sun sensor under development at the University of Naples. The sensor determines the sun line orientation in the sensor frame from the measurement of the sun position on the focal plane. It exploits CMOS technology and an original optical head design with multiple apertures. This allows simultaneous multiple acquisitions of the sun as spots on the focal plane. The sensor can be operated either with a fixed or a variable number of sun spots, depending on the required field of view and sun-line measurement precision. Multiple acquisitions are averaged by using techniques which minimize the computational load to extract the sun line orientation with high precision. Accuracy and computational efficiency are also improved thanks to an original design o