Pose Changes From a Different Point of View
Abstract
For more than a century, rigid-body displacements have been viewed as affine transformations described as homogeneous transformation matrices wherein the linear part is a rotation matrix. In group-theoretic terms, this classical description makes rigid-body motions a semidirect product. The distinction between a rigid-body displacement of Euclidean space and a change in pose from one reference frame to another is usually not articulated well in the literature. Here, we show that, remarkably, when changes in pose are viewed from a space-fixed reference frame, the space of pose changes can be endowed with a direct product group structure, which is different from the semidirect product structure of the space of motions. We then show how this new perspective can be applied more naturally to problems such as monitoring the state of aerial vehicles from the ground, or the cameras in a humanoid robot observing pose changes of its hands.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Feb 27, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1115/1.4039121
Entities
People
- Gregory S. Chirikjian
- Jochen Trumpf
- Robert Mahony
- Sipu Ruan
Organizations
- Australian National University
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
- Johns Hopkins University
- Office of Naval Research Global