Book · 2020

Quaternions and Rotation Sequences

Jack Kuipers

Princeton University Press eBooks

Abstract

In this paper we introduce and define the quaternion; we give a brief introduction to its properties and algebra, and we show, what appears to be, its primary application -the quaternion rotation operator.The quaternion rotation operator competes with the conventional matrix rotation operator in a variety of rotation sequences.

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DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvx5wc3k