Spatial vector algebra

struct CartesianFrame3D

A CartesianFrame3D identifies a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.

CartesianFrame3Ds are typically used to annotate the frame in which certain quantities are expressed.

CartesianFrame3D(name)

Create a CartesianFrame3D with the given name.

CartesianFrame3D()

Create an anonymous CartesianFrame3D.

struct Transform3D{T}

A homogeneous transformation matrix representing the transformation from one three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system to another.

struct Point3D{V<:(AbstractArray{T,1} where T)}

A Point3D represents a position in a given coordinate system.

A Point3D is a bound vector. Applying a Transform3D to a Point3D both rotates and translates the Point3D.

struct FreeVector3D{V<:(AbstractArray{T,1} where T)}

A FreeVector3D represents a free vector.

Examples of free vectors include displacements and velocities of points.

Applying a Transform3D to a FreeVector3D only rotates the FreeVector3D.

struct SpatialInertia{T}

A spatial inertia, or inertia matrix, represents the mass distribution of a rigid body.

A spatial inertia expressed in frame $i$ is defined as:

where $\rho(x)$ is the density of point $x$, and $p(x)$ are the coordinates of point $x$ expressed in frame $i$. $J$ is the mass moment of inertia, $m$ is the total mass, and $c$ is the 'cross part', center of mass position scaled by $m$.

struct Twist{T}

A twist represents the relative angular and linear motion between two bodies.

The twist of frame $j$ with respect to frame $i$, expressed in frame $k$ is defined as

such that

where $H^{\beta}_{\alpha}$ is the homogeneous transform from frame $\alpha$ to frame $\beta$, and $\hat{x}$ is the $3 \times 3$ skew symmetric matrix that satisfies $\hat{x} y = x \times y$ for all $y \in \mathbb{R}^3$.

Here, $\omega_{j}^{k,i}$ is the angular part and $v_{j}^{k,i}$ is the linear part. Note that the linear part is not in general the same as the linear velocity of the origin of frame $j$.

struct SpatialAcceleration{T}

A spatial acceleration is the time derivative of a twist.

See Twist.

struct Momentum{T}

A Momentum is the product of a SpatialInertia and a Twist, i.e.

where $I^i$ is the spatial inertia of a given body expressed in frame $i$, and $T^{i, j}_k$ is the twist of frame $k$ (attached to the body) with respect to inertial frame $j$, expressed in frame $i$. $k^i$ is the angular momentum and $l^i$ is the linear momentum.

struct Wrench{T}

A wrench represents a system of forces.

The wrench $w^i$ expressed in frame $i$ is defined as

where the $f_{j}^{i}$ are forces expressed in frame $i$, exerted at positions $r_{j}^{i}$. $\tau^i$ is the total torque and $f^i$ is the total force.

struct GeometricJacobian{A<:(AbstractArray{T,2} where T)}

A geometric Jacobian (also known as basic, or spatial Jacobian) maps a vector of joint velocities to a twist.

struct MomentumMatrix{A<:(AbstractArray{T,2} where T)}

A momentum matrix maps a joint velocity vector to momentum.

This is a slight generalization of the centroidal momentum matrix (Orin, Goswami, "Centroidal momentum matrix of a humanoid robot: Structure and properties.") in that the matrix (and hence the corresponding total momentum) need not be expressed in a centroidal frame.

Check that CartesianFrame3D f1 is one of f2s.

Note that if f2s is a CartesianFrame3D, then f1 and f2s are simply checked for equality.

Throws an ArgumentError if f1 is not among f2s when bounds checks are enabled. @framecheck is a no-op when bounds checks are disabled.

center_of_mass(inertia)

Return the center of mass of the SpatialInertia as a Point3D.

kinetic_energy(inertia, twist)

Compute the kinetic energy of a body with spatial inertia $I$, which has twist $T$ with respect to an inertial frame.

log_with_time_derivative(t, twist)

Compute exponential coordinates as well as their time derivatives in one shot. This mainly exists because ForwardDiff won't work at the singularity of log. It is also ~50% faster than ForwardDiff in this case.

newton_euler(inertia, spatial_accel, twist)

Apply the Newton-Euler equations to find the external wrench required to make a body with spatial inertia $I$, which has twist $T$ with respect to an inertial frame, achieve spatial acceleration $\dot{T}$.

This wrench is also equal to the rate of change of momentum of the body.

point_acceleration(twist, accel, point)

Given the twist $dot{T}_{j}^{k,i}$ of frame $j$ with respect to frame $i$, expressed in frame $k$ and its time derivative (a spatial acceleration), as well as the location of a point fixed in frame $j$, also expressed in frame $k$, compute the acceleration of the point relative to frame $i$.

point_velocity(twist, point)

Given the twist $T_{j}^{k,i}$ of frame $j$ with respect to frame $i$, expressed in frame $k$, and the location of a point fixed in frame $j$, also expressed in frame $k$, compute the velocity of the point relative to frame $i$.

transform(x, t)

Return x transformed to CartesianFrame3D t.from.

transform(jac, tf)

Transform the GeometricJacobian to a different frame.

transform(f, tf)

Transform the Momentum to a different frame.

transform(x, t)

Return x transformed to CartesianFrame3D t.from.

transform(accel, old_to_new, twist_of_current_wrt_new, twist_of_body_wrt_base)

Transform the SpatialAcceleration to a different frame.

The transformation rule is obtained by differentiating the transformation rule for twists.

transform(inertia, t)

Transform the SpatialInertia to a different frame.

transform(twist, tf)

Transform the Twist to a different frame.

transform(f, tf)

Transform the Wrench to a different frame.

exp(twist)

Convert exponential coordinates to a homogeneous transform.

log(t)

Express a homogeneous transform in exponential coordinates centered around the identity.

dot(w, t)

Compute the mechanical power associated with a pairing of a wrench and a twist.

Equivalent to one of

mapslices(x -> f(a, x), B, dims=1)
mapslices(x -> f(x, b), A, dims=1)

but optimized for statically-sized matrices.