Quaternions and the rotation of a rigid body

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 239-251

  Arribas, M ^a   Elipe, A ^a   Palacios, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitude dynamics; Quaternions; Rigid body motion; Rotations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751580329     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-006-9037-6     Document Type: Article

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