NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

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Re: NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

Postby JoeWright » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:47 pm

Justing thinking - the shoulder joint is going to be a nightmare to specify. Its almost unlimited but not quite.

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Re: NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

Postby JoeWright » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:39 pm

Julio Jerez wrote:let us say that

a02 = -sin (y)

is is cleat that we can get y form

y = asin(-a02)

by here is the problem

since sin (y) = sin (180 - y)


I had a bit more of a think about this. I rewrote the general form of the rotation as follows (excuse the formatting):

{ {Cos[y] Cos[z], -Cos[y] Sin[z], Sin[y]},
{Cos[z] Sin[x] Sin[y] + Cos[x] Sin[z], Cos[x] Cos[z] - Sin[x] Sin[y] Sin[z], -Cos[y] Sin[x]},
{-Cos[x] Cos[z] Sin[y] + Sin[x] Sin[z], Cos[z] Sin[x] + Cos[x] Sin[y] Sin[z], Cos[x] Cos[y]} }

Which is the same as yours except for the odd plus or minus (I was basing it on elementry rotation matrices).

Then, I made a series of substitutions from a arbitary example { {a,b,c}, {d,e,f}, {g,h,i} } into the matrix to give:

{{a, b, c},
{-a c f Sec[y]^2 - b i Sec[y]^2, -b c f Sec[y]^2 + a i Sec[y]^2, f},
{b f Sec[y]^2 - a c i Sec[y]^2, -a f Sec[y]^2 - b c i Sec[y]^2, i} }

Leaving terms involving cos(y). I had thought you could then use atan2(sin(y),cos(y)) but know thinking about it, the squaring of sec(y) means that we can't reconstruct? The thing is, you can reconstruct from a single rotation matrix about y because you have the individual cos(y) and sin(y) terms:

{ {Cos[y], 0, Sin[y]}, {0, 1, 0}, {-Sin[y], 0, Cos[y]} }

So is it only under multiplication of the three matrices that the sign gets lost?

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Re: NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

Postby JoeWright » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:30 pm

I've been fiddling about with my programme so I could see how specify and extracting euler angles corresponds. I now am really starting to to get an understanding for why the beta angle is [-pi/2, pi/2] and not [-pi,pi] as when beta is outside this range, its equivalent to beta being in the range but alpha and gamma being offset by pi.

There's a couple of things I've got to work out in what I'm doing but I think I'm close to getting consistent euler angles that I can then apply limits to. So I'm thinking that there's probably a method with quaternions that I can base on your custom ball and socket joint that will allow the contraint rows to take from 'current orientation' to 'where it should be'.

Will post tomorrow hopefully.

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Re: NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

Postby Julio Jerez » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:30 am

Oh I have let you down, the bug are piling because I was working on a new feature, and I the engine was in state of changes.
Plus I was also fix soem very critical bug.

if you download teh SDK you can see what the feature was.
Now it is almost finish and I can check some, the bug and request repoored by people.
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Re: NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

Postby JoeWright » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:59 am

No problem. Its actually forced me to get my head round the problem more which has improved my understanding no end.

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Re: NewtonUserJointAddLinearRow sanity check

Postby JoeWright » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:15 pm

Julio, can I ask your advice?

I've finally got a system where I can move the child body around, and as a test I specify euler angles to move it. In the constraint callback I'm extracting the euler angles and I'm finding (as long as I restrict the y angle to [-pi/2,pi/2]) that I'm consistently getting equality with my test angles. So, in that sense the system is working exactly how I want it.

However, I am wondering if this is the way I want to do it. What I'm trying to do is have a roughly approximate human body. I want joints where I can specify the limits of the rotations around each joint between body parts. What I was planning was to use euler angles. I'm extracting them correctly now so, if any are outside bounds I can construct a desired position to constrain to (using quarternions or whatever). But I'm starting to get a better feel for euler rotations and it seems to me the order that the angles are specified is critical (since the matrix is the composition of 3 basic rotation matrices [I'm using an xyz form]).

I'm not sure, but is this a good way to achieve my goal? Or should I be using a different system? Things are starting to work but I'm starting to worry as well.

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