Smooth invariant interpolation of rotations

  • Authors:
  • F. C. Park;Bahram Ravani

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea;Univ. of California, Davis

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We present an algorithm for generating a twice-differentiable curve on the rotation group SO(3) that interpolated a given ordered set of rotation matrices at their specified knot times. In our approach we regard SO(3) as a Lie group with a bi-invariant Riemannian metriac, and apply the coordinate-invariant methods of Riemannian geometry. The resulting rotation curve is easy to compute, invariant with respect to fixed and moving reference frames, and also approximately minimizes angular acceleration.