A symmetric splitting method for rigid body dynamics

It has been known since the time of Jacobi that the solution to the free rigid body (FRB) equations of motion is given in terms of a certain type of elliptic functions. Using the Arithmetic-Geometric mean algorithm, (1), these functions can be calculated efficiently and accurately. The overall appro...

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Main Authors: E. Celledoni, N. Säfström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 2006-04-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/2006/MIC-2006-2-2.pdf