What is the general form of the explicit equations of motion for constrained mechanical systems?

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 335-339

  Udwadia, F E ^a   Kalaba, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRICTION; HAMILTONIANS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0036588355     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1459071     Document Type: Article

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