• DocumentCode
    3178652
  • Title

    Hamel´s formalism and variational integrators on a sphere

  • Author

    Zenkov, D.V. ; Leok, Melvin ; Bloch, Anthony M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    7504
  • Lastpage
    7510
  • Abstract
    This paper discusses Hamel´s formalism and its applications to structure-preserving integration of mechanical systems. It utilizes redundant coordinates in order to eliminate multiple charts on the configuration space as well as nonphysical artificial singularities induced by local coordinates, while keeping the minimal possible degree of redundancy and avoiding integration of differential-algebraic equations.
  • Keywords
    integration; mechanical engineering; redundancy; Hamel formalism; configuration space; mechanical system; nonphysical artificial singularity; redundant coordinate; sphere; structure-preserving integration; variational integrator; Dynamics; Equations; Mathematical model; Mechanical systems; Potential energy; USA Councils; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control (CDC), 2012 IEEE 51st Annual Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Maui, HI
  • ISSN
    0743-1546
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2065-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0743-1546
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2012.6426779
  • Filename
    6426779