R2xyz {nvctr}

Find the three rotation angles about new axes in the xyz order from a rotation matrix

Description

The angles (called Euler angles or Tait–Bryan angles) are defined by the following procedure of successive rotations: Given two arbitrary coordinate frames A and B, consider a temporary frame T that initially coincides with A. In order to make T align with B, we first rotate T an angle x about its x-axis (common axis for both A and T). Secondly, T is rotated an angle y about the NEW y-axis of T. Finally, T is rotated an angle z about its NEWEST z-axis. The final orientation of T now coincides with the orientation of B. The signs of the angles are given by the directions of the axes and the right hand rule.

Usage

R2xyz(R_AB)

Arguments

R_AB

a 3x3 rotation matrix (direction cosine matrix) such that the relation between a vector v decomposed in A and B is given by: v_A = R_AB * v_B

Value

x,y,z Angles of rotation about new axes (rad)

References

Kenneth Gade A Nonsingular Horizontal Position Representation. The Journal of Navigation, Volume 63, Issue 03, pp 395-417, July 2010.

See Also

xyz2R, R2zyx and zyx2R.

Examples

  R_AB <- matrix(
     c( 0.9980212 ,  0.05230407, -0.0348995 ,
       -0.05293623,  0.99844556, -0.01744177,
        0.03393297,  0.01925471,  0.99923861),
     nrow = 3, ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
R2xyz(R_AB)