New method for extracting the quaternion from a rotation matrix

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1085-1087

  Bar Itzhack, Itzhack Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

DIRECTION COSINE MATRIX; NONLINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATION; QUATERNION; ROTATION MATRIX;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0034315826     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4654     Document Type: Article

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