[ODE] how to count angular velocity...

erwin@erwincoumans.com erwin at erwincoumans.com
Wed Nov 22 15:49:17 MST 2006


This is exactly what the code is doing that my previous posting was pointing 
to. However, the link was probably messed up by this webmail interface. 

Please see attached file for a solution. It is a snippet from the Bullet 
physics engine, but should be trivial to port over to ODE.
Cheers,
Erwin 

 

Krystian Ligenza writes: 

> i forgot to add, that I'm setting my symulation to initial configuration
> from motion capture data. So I need to compute by my self angular
> velocity. 
> 
> Krystian 
> 
>> You should be able to get the angular velocity from the object using
>> dBodyGetAngularVel(ID).  It returns a 3-float vector that represents an
>> axis
>> (the x, y, z from the vector) and a rate of rotation (the magnitude of the
>> vector, or mag = sqrt(x*x + y*y + z*z)).  A magnitude of zero means no
>> rotation. 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org]On Behalf Of
>> Krystian Ligenza
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:27 PM
>> To: ode at q12.org
>> Subject: [ODE] how to count angular velocity... 
>>
>>
>> Hi, 
>>
>> is't probably very easy question, but I have gave up :(
>> I have got dBody in 2 time steps. I know it's rotation matrix in both time
>> step (t and t+1), and need to count body angular velocity in t+1. I have
>> tried do it in this way: 
>>
>> R(t+1) = R(t)*R(transformation), so 
>>
>> R(transformation) = R(t)-1 * R(t+1), after this I have converted
>> R(trasnformation) to euler rotation vector, and used it like this: 
>>
>> dBodySetAngularVel(body, vEx/timeStep, vEy/timeStep, vEz/timeStep); 
>>
>> Legend:
>> R(t) -> rotation matrix in first time step
>> R(t)-1 -> inverse matrix R(t)
>> R(t+1) -> rotation matrix in second time step
>> vEx/vEy/vEz -> euler rotation x/y/z 
>>
>> but it don't behave good :( Can somebody help me? 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Krystian 
>>
>>
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*/


#ifndef SIMD_TRANSFORM_UTIL_H
#define SIMD_TRANSFORM_UTIL_H

#include "LinearMath/btTransform.h"
#define ANGULAR_MOTION_THRESHOLD 0.5f*SIMD_HALF_PI



#define SIMDSQRT12 btScalar(0.7071067811865475244008443621048490)

#define btRecipSqrt(x) ((float)(1.0f/btSqrt(float(x))))		/* reciprocal square root */

inline btVector3 btAabbSupport(const btVector3& halfExtents,const btVector3& supportDir)
{
	return btVector3(supportDir.x() < btScalar(0.0f) ? -halfExtents.x() : halfExtents.x(),
      supportDir.y() < btScalar(0.0f) ? -halfExtents.y() : halfExtents.y(),
      supportDir.z() < btScalar(0.0f) ? -halfExtents.z() : halfExtents.z()); 
}


inline void btPlaneSpace1 (const btVector3& n, btVector3& p, btVector3& q)
{
  if (btFabs(n[2]) > SIMDSQRT12) {
    // choose p in y-z plane
    btScalar a = n[1]*n[1] + n[2]*n[2];
    btScalar k = btRecipSqrt (a);
    p[0] = 0;
    p[1] = -n[2]*k;
    p[2] = n[1]*k;
    // set q = n x p
    q[0] = a*k;
    q[1] = -n[0]*p[2];
    q[2] = n[0]*p[1];
  }
  else {
    // choose p in x-y plane
    btScalar a = n[0]*n[0] + n[1]*n[1];
    btScalar k = btRecipSqrt (a);
    p[0] = -n[1]*k;
    p[1] = n[0]*k;
    p[2] = 0;
    // set q = n x p
    q[0] = -n[2]*p[1];
    q[1] = n[2]*p[0];
    q[2] = a*k;
  }
}



/// Utils related to temporal transforms
class btTransformUtil
{

public:

	static void integrateTransform(const btTransform& curTrans,const btVector3& linvel,const btVector3& angvel,btScalar timeStep,btTransform& predictedTransform)
	{
		predictedTransform.setOrigin(curTrans.getOrigin() + linvel * timeStep);
//	#define QUATERNION_DERIVATIVE
	#ifdef QUATERNION_DERIVATIVE
		btQuaternion orn = curTrans.getRotation();
		orn += (angvel * orn) * (timeStep * 0.5f);
		orn.normalize();
	#else
		//exponential map
		btVector3 axis;
		btScalar	fAngle = angvel.length(); 
		//limit the angular motion
		if (fAngle*timeStep > ANGULAR_MOTION_THRESHOLD)
		{
			fAngle = ANGULAR_MOTION_THRESHOLD / timeStep;
		}

		if ( fAngle < 0.001f )
		{
			// use Taylor's expansions of sync function
			axis   = angvel*( 0.5f*timeStep-(timeStep*timeStep*timeStep)*(0.020833333333f)*fAngle*fAngle );
		}
		else
		{
			// sync(fAngle) = sin(c*fAngle)/t
			axis   = angvel*( btSin(0.5f*fAngle*timeStep)/fAngle );
		}
		btQuaternion dorn (axis.x(),axis.y(),axis.z(),btCos( fAngle*timeStep*0.5f ));
		btQuaternion orn0 = curTrans.getRotation();

		btQuaternion predictedOrn = dorn * orn0;
	#endif
		predictedTransform.setRotation(predictedOrn);
	}

	static void	calculateVelocity(const btTransform& transform0,const btTransform& transform1,btScalar timeStep,btVector3& linVel,btVector3& angVel)
	{
		linVel = (transform1.getOrigin() - transform0.getOrigin()) / timeStep;
		btVector3 axis;
		btScalar  angle;
		calculateDiffAxisAngle(transform0,transform1,axis,angle);
		angVel = axis * angle / timeStep;
	}

	static void calculateDiffAxisAngle(const btTransform& transform0,const btTransform& transform1,btVector3& axis,btScalar& angle)
	{
	
	#ifdef USE_QUATERNION_DIFF
		btQuaternion orn0 = transform0.getRotation();
		btQuaternion orn1a = transform1.getRotation();
		btQuaternion orn1 = orn0.farthest(orn1a);
		btQuaternion dorn = orn1 * orn0.inverse();
#else
		btMatrix3x3 dmat = transform1.getBasis() * transform0.getBasis().inverse();
		btQuaternion dorn;
		dmat.getRotation(dorn);
#endif//USE_QUATERNION_DIFF
	
		angle = dorn.getAngle();
		axis = btVector3(dorn.x(),dorn.y(),dorn.z());
		axis[3] = 0.f;
		//check for axis length
		btScalar len = axis.length2();
		if (len < SIMD_EPSILON*SIMD_EPSILON)
			axis = btVector3(1.f,0.f,0.f);
		else
			axis /= btSqrt(len);
	}

};

#endif //SIMD_TRANSFORM_UTIL_H



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