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Appendix E: Useful Time Derivatives

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This Appendix presents a detailed description of how the time derivatives of a normal vector, a rotation matrix and a quaternion are computed. These time derivatives are extensively used in Chaps. 4 and 5 to describe the dynamics of a rigid-body system.

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  1. 1.

    In the rigid-body case, the coordinate frame \(\mathcal{F}_{1}\) is the body frame.

  2. 2.

    To simplify the notation, we shall use \(\dot{a}\) to represent the time derivative \(\frac {d a}{dt}\).

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    Coutinho, M.G. (2013). Appendix E: Useful Time Derivatives. In: Guide to Dynamic Simulations of Rigid Bodies and Particle Systems. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4417-5_10

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