Overview: Discussion of engineering applications (robots, airplanes).Systematic approach for deriving model equations.Enables the reader to handle modern general purpose rigid body programsThe dynamics of mechanical rigid-body systems is a highly developed disci pline. The model equations that apply to the tremendous variety of appli cations of rigid-body systems in industrial practice are based on just a few basic laws of, for example, Newton, Euler, or Lagrange. These basic laws can be written in an extreme compact, symmetrical, and esthetic form, simple enough to be easily learned and kep
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