This part used the previous information, and played around with adding more satellites to the simulation. The code used was the same as part 5. The table can be seen below that shows the 12 trials for EMF and Maximum Position Error for 8 satellites.
EMF | Maximum Position Error(km) |
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0.454642361673915 | 0.00136298351117148 |
0.454640837215659 | 0.0013629789409606 |
1.07716885934356 | 0.00322927100023662 |
1.6791372738387 | 0.00503392690643523 |
2.26262720983026 | 0.00678318572772696 |
1.07716875376914 | 0.00322927068373247 | 1.67913749044829 | 0.00503392755581444 |
2.26262792609811 | 0.00678318787504395 |
1.01407200254759 | 0.00304011138232723 |
1.01407221473167 | 0.00304011201843911 |
1.66065920246407 | 0.00497853104207024 |
1.09305422133056 | 0.00327689411739965 |
The maximum position error was 0.00678318787504395, with a condition number of 2.26262792609811. It was found that the EMF decreased as the satellites moved further apart from each other.