A Tutorial on Vectors and Attitude

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-107

  Van Der Ha, Jozef C ^a   Shuster, Malcolm D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE MATRICES; AXIS-ANGLE REPRESENTATIONS; COLUMN VECTORS; DUAL VECTORS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ROTATION;

VECTORS;

EID: 65549101541     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2008.929426     Document Type: Article

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