Class of rotations induced by spherical polygons

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 746-749

  Mukherjee, Ranjan ^a   Pukrushpan, Jay T ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; ROTATION;

ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS; SPHERICAL POLYGON; SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 0034228296     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4594     Document Type: Article

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