How Many Satellites To Add

Robert Argus, Aneesh Malhotra, Kathleen McLane

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)
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.