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Construct a rotation matrix that rotates vectors by a specified angle about a specified axis.
ROTATION
Variable I/O Description -------- --- -------------------------------------------------- axis I Rotation axis. angle I Rotation angle, in radians. r O Rotation matrix corresponding to axis and angle.
axis, angle are, respectively, a rotation axis and a rotation angle. axis and angle determine a coordinate transformation whose effect on any vector v is to rotate v by angle radians about the vector axis.
r is a rotation matrix representing the coordinate transformation determined by axis and angle: for each vector v, r*v is the vector resulting from rotating v by angle radians about axis.
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axisar_c can be thought of as a partial inverse of raxisa_c. axisar_c is really is a `left inverse': the code fragment raxisa_c ( r, axis, &angle ); axisar_c ( axis, angle, r ); preserves r, except for round-off error, as long as r is a rotation matrix. On the other hand, the code fragment axisar_c ( axis, angle, r ); raxisa_c ( r, axis, &angle ); preserves axis and angle, except for round-off error, only if angle is in the range (0, pi). So axisar_c is a right inverse of raxisa_c only over a limited domain.
1) A matrix that rotates vectors by pi/2 radians about the z-axis can be found using the code fragment axis[0] = 0. axis[1] = 0. axis[2] = 1. axisar_c ( axis, halfpi_c(), r ); The returned matrix r will equal +- -+ | 0 -1 0 | | | | 1 0 0 |. | | | 0 0 1 | +- -+ 2) Linear interpolation between two rotation matrices: Let r(t) be a time-varying rotation matrix; r could be a C-matrix describing the orientation of a spacecraft structure. Given two points in time t1 and t2 at which r(t) is known, and given a third time t3, where t1 < t3 < t2, we can estimate r(t3) by linear interpolation. In other words, we approximate the motion of r by pretending that r rotates about a fixed axis at a uniform angular rate during the time interval [t1, t2]. More specifically, we assume that each column vector of r rotates in this fashion. This procedure will not work if r rotates through an angle of pi radians or more during the time interval [t1, t2]; an aliasing effect would occur in that case. If we let r1 = r(t1) r2 = r(t2), and -1 q = r2 * r1 , then the rotation axis and angle of q define the rotation that each column of r(t) undergoes from time t1 to time t2. Since r(t) is orthogonal, we can find q using the transpose of r1. We find the rotation axis and angle via raxisa_c. mxmt_c ( r2, r1, q ); raxisa_c ( q, axis, &angle ); Find the fraction of the total rotation angle that r rotates through in the time interval [t1, t3]. frac = ( t3 - t1 ) / ( t2 - t1 ) Finally, find the rotation delta that r(t) undergoes during the time interval [t1, t3], and apply that rotation to r1, yielding r(t3), which we'll call r3. axisar_c ( axis, frac * angle, delta ); mxm_c ( delta, r1, r3 );
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Error free. 1) If axis is the zero vector, the rotation generated is the identity. This is consistent with the specification of vrotv.
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N.J. Bachman (JPL)
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-CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 18-JUN-1999 (NJB)
axis and angle to rotation