Recent content by HateDread

I have heard of angle-axis stuff before, but is it not a rotation around each axis by a rotation amount, just like with Euler angles? I'm afraid I'm not understanding the difference. What form does this eigenrotation take?

Hey DH, Yeah, I was aware of this when I actually sat down to think about it. Your post helps a lot though - I'm going for a very shoddy setup, and can take shortcuts with ease, as I control the environment (physics included). If worst comes to worst, I'll keep the forces for lateral...

Thanks for the reply, BvU. I'm terribly sorry, but could you please walk me through these equations? I've forgotten my high-school physics, and even then we didn't use a few of these symbols. What's going on here? Thanks.

Hi BvU, I do realize the nature of rotations. I guess I just hadn't expressed that point. And yes, I'm using matrices for my rotations (constructed out of euler angle vectors, just so I can work with them before converting them to the matrix). Yepp, that's the plan re. heading. For now...

1. Homework Statement ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEXT: I'm writing an AI simulation for am upcoming assessment in my computer programming course, and I'm having some trouble with the physics and calculations. The simulation...