Rolling Stiefel manifolds

  • Authors:
  • K. Huper;M. Kleinsteuber;F. Silva Leite

  • Affiliations:
  • NICTA, Canberra, ACT, Australia,Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia;NICTA, Canberra, ACT, Australia,Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia;Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal,Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Systems Science - The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (Controlo'2006)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this article, rolling maps for real Stiefel manifolds are studied. Real Stiefel manifolds being the set of all orthonormal k-frames of an n-dimensional real Euclidean space are compact manifolds. They are considered here as rigid bodies embedded in a suitable Euclidean space such that the corresponding Euclidean group acts on the rigid body by rotations and translations in the usual way. We derive the kinematic equations describing this rolling motion.