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FindRotation — Extraction of relative orientation of triads [mathematica]

Reference for maple version: Appendix B in Multibody Mechanics and Visualization by Harry Dankowicz, published by Springer Verlag UK, 2004.

Calling Sequence

FindRotation[a1,a2]

Parameters

a1, a2: names of defined triads

Description

The function FindRotation returns the rotation matrix between the triads labeled by a1 and a2.

Examples

Restart; DeclareTriads[a,b]; DefineTriads[a,b,q,1,2,3]; FindRotation[a,b]

${{\frac{1}{14} (1 - Cos [q]) + Cos [q], \frac{1}{7} (1 - Cos [q]) - \frac{3 Sin [q]}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{3}{14} (1 - Cos [q]) + \sqrt{\frac{2}{7}} Sin [q]}, {\frac{1}{7} (1 - Cos [q]) + \frac{3 Sin [q]}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{2}{7} (1 - Cos [q]) + Cos [q], \frac{3}{7} (1 - Cos [q]) - \frac{Sin [q]}{\sqrt{14}}}, {\frac{3}{14} (1 - Cos [q]) - \sqrt{\frac{2}{7}} Sin [q], \frac{3}{7} (1 - Cos [q]) + \frac{Sin [q]}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{9}{14} (1 - Cos [q]) + Cos [q]}}$

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