Equations of Motion for Rigid Multibody Systems (Equations du Mouvement de Systemes a Plusieurs Corps Solides),

Abstract

Several computer-oriented methods for the formulation of the equations of motion for multibody systems with tree structure and also with closed chains are presented in a unified manner. They all stem from the same basic set of equations which are regarded as arising out of the stationary point condition of a quadratic programming (QP) problem. Using QP theory it is shown that the various methods are just different ways of solving the Lagrangian system of equations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137234

Entities

People

  • I. H. Mufti

Organizations

  • National Research Council Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Acceleration
  • Angular Momentum
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Decomposition
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Graph Theory
  • Joints
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • New York
  • Optimization
  • Quadratic Programming
  • Relative Motion
  • Sparse Matrix
  • Universal Joints

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Operations Research
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