Quasi-Chaplygin Systems and Nonholonimic Rigid Body Dynamics

Quasi-chaplygin Systems and Nonholonimic Rigid Body Dynamics

We show that the Suslov nonholonomic rigid body problem studied in [10, 13, 26] can be regarded almost everywhere as a generalized Chaply-gin system. Furthermore, this provides a new example of a multidimensional nonholonomic system which can be reduced to a Hamiltonian form by means of Chaplygin reducing multiplier. Since we deal with Chaplygin systems in the local sense, the invariant manifol...

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We show that the Suslov nonholonomic rigid body problem studied in [10, 13, 26] can be regarded almost everywhere as a generalized Chaplygin system. Furthermore, this provides a new example of a multidimensional nonholonomic system which can be reduced to a Hamiltonian form by means of Chaplygin reducing multiplier. Since we deal with Chaplygin systems in the local sense, the invariant manifold...

Title : Rigid body dynamics

3D Rigid Body Dynamics

The difficulty of describing the positions of the body-fixed axis of a rotating body is approached through the use of Euler angles: spin ψ̇, nutation θ and precession φ shown below in Figure 1. In this case we surmount the difficulty of keeping track of the principal axes fixed to the body by making their orientation the unknowns in our equations of motion; then the angular velocities and angula...

Frictional Rigid Body Dynamics

Practical problems like regulating robot grippers critically rely on accurately predicted friction forces. Qualified methods are derived and discussed subsequently. Special attention is paid to the question of solution existence. A time-stepping scheme which supports Coulomb friction and inelastic impacts is implemented and the numerical results are analyzed. The approach proofs to be stable, a...