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Rigid Body Dynamics For Beginners: Euler angles & Quaternions

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4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
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Has anyone experienced difficulty and confusion in understanding what the Euler angles, quaternions, and direction cosine matrices are, and furthermore, about the relationships among them? This book is for those who had struggled to figure out what all the aforementioned concepts are, and also provides a practical example that could be easily followed with MATLAB.
In addition, some surface of linear motions will also be touched so that in the end, a set of equations of motion that describe the motion of a rigid body in three-dimensional space could be constructed. Following step by step, the reader will be gradually immersed into the joy of learning and applying basic attitude dynamics.
The book will be good for those who are already familiar in the field by helping them reorganize the concepts and knowledge they have learned before.
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Phil Kim received all the degrees (BS, MS, and PhD) in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University. After his education, he worked at Korea Aerospace Research Institute as a Senior Researcher. There, his main task was to develop autonomous flight algorithm and onboard software for unmanned aerial vehicle. An on-screen keyboard program named 'Clickey' developed by him during his period in PhD program served as a bridge to bring the author currently being a Senior Research Officer at National Rehabilitation Research Institute of Korea.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 3, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 174 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1493598201
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1493598205
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Néstor García
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buen libro
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2023
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La matriz de rotación, los ángulos eulerianos y los quaterniones están explicados con mucha sencillez. Fácil de entender.
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2023
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To monitor my blood oxygen concentration
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Liao Xinag
4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2015
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Very usefull book! Easy to understand.But with less contents...
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Hyoska
5.0 out of 5 stars Contents very good but Book size is pocket book size and should be reprinted normal size 8.5 X 11
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2020
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Please ask author to reprint the book in a normal size 8.5 X 11 since I wold like to buy it again. The present size is too small and difficult to read. I have another book by the author Phil Kim with a normal size which is readable.
I believe he has a personal printer in Delaware who can easily resize it and reprint it. I don't mind paying more.
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Humayun Akhtar
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thatrocketguy
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Book
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2014
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I've spent the past couple months trying to figure out Quaternions and Euler angles. This book is written in very simple language and in a way that is very clear. It's a short read, much smaller than I expected it to be. I read through the whole thing in about 90 minutes, but it allowed me to go back to my simulation and get everything working right. Includes some sample Matlab code, and the appendices go through some more detailed derivations. Could use a little more detail, but it gave me everything I needed. This book in combination with Quaternions and Rotation Sequences tell you pretty much everything you need to know.
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MFZaman
5.0 out of 5 stars Euler Angles and Quaternions Explained in a Simple Intuitive Manner!
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2014
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This is a great introduction book for learning about Direction Cosines, Euler Angles, and Quaternions and the relationships between them. It is written quite intuitively and It took me less than 10 hours of reading to cover the entire book (including running the nice yet useful MATLAB scripts). I would highly recommend this book as a starting point for engineers wanting to understand the basics of rigid body dynamics without wanting to get confused with lengthy and difficult derivations in most text books. Once you have an appreciation for the material you can move onto the more detailed literature.
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Alexey Denisov
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015
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I found all the answers I looked for. Great book!
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airjang
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! This is what I'm searching for.
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013
I've been searching for this kind of easily explained book to engineer. I didn't know physical meaning of rigid body dynamics before I met this book. Actually, I can say this book is exactly what I need and be helpful to engineer in many ways. Thanks to author.
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Victor Martin Lac
2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but not worth the price
Reviewed in France on December 26, 2017
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This book explains what a vector and a cross product are but it assumes that you know what angular momentum is.
The target audience for this book was not well defined.
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Nic
5.0 out of 5 stars Great step by step explanation
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2016
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very well explained for the non-mathematician like me
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Ioannis Papadopoulos
1.0 out of 5 stars Useless book for Beginners
Reviewed in Italy on November 7, 2014
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If you already have a good knowledge of (Newtonian) Rigid Body Dynamics, then this book could be of some interest adding to the classical matrix based rotation of frames, the quaternions rotation representation, which surely has some advantages.
The above means that this book is unsuitable for begginers, who would make a much better coice investing their money to e.g. the book Intermediate Dynamics by Howland, the part II of which is an excellent introduction to 3-D rigid body dynamics.
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