Re: rotation matrix to Yaw-Pitch-Roll angles
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- Subject: [mg20564] Re: rotation matrix to Yaw-Pitch-Roll angles
- From: "John M. Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:14:10 -0400
- Organization: CERN
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Gil C. wrote: > > Hello, > I know this question was asked before, but I could not find an > answer... > Having the definition of an object's orientation in space (world XYZ > coordinate system), how do I represent its orientation as > Yaw-Pitch-Roll angles ? > I am looking for the formulas. Hello, This comes up in accelerator physics (and many other places) and I happen to know a handy reference http://wwwslap.cern.ch/~fci/mad/mad9/user/node7.html John Jowett -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- My home page: http://wwwslap.cern.ch/~jowett/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------