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Modified Rodrigues Parameters have been developed for the aerospace industry and recommended by Schaub (cf. Basilisk) and as the attitude representation in NASA's Best Practices for Navigation Filters.
Some of the main reasons include:
Ease of interpolation, although switching to the shadow set may lead to interpolation issues
Only three numbers proportional to the tangent of the quarter of the angle -- which implies that a 32 bit representation may be sufficient in many (most?) cases
Ease of conversion to a skew-symmetric matrix and to quaternions
No ambiguity in quaternion nomenclature or structure
The orientation path between two MRPs is necessarily the shortest path (which is not true for quaternions)
Question: are 32 bits indeed enough to represent all rotations without loss compared to a 64 bit unit quaternion? This question can be easily answered with a plot showing the error in conversion to/from a 32 bit MRP and 64 bit quaternion.
Question: if the shadow set is always enforced, is there a need for the is_singular parameter?
Nomenclature
The nomenclature from Schaub and Junkins shall be used throughout the implementation, including for the naming of the operations (e.g. Add vs Mul).
Modified Rodrigues Parameters have been developed for the aerospace industry and recommended by Schaub (cf. Basilisk) and as the attitude representation in NASA's Best Practices for Navigation Filters.
Some of the main reasons include:
Proposed signatures
This would be available everywhere by default.
MRP definition
Question: are 32 bits indeed enough to represent all rotations without loss compared to a 64 bit unit quaternion? This question can be easily answered with a plot showing the error in conversion to/from a 32 bit MRP and 64 bit quaternion.
Question: if the shadow set is always enforced, is there a need for the
is_singularparameter?Nomenclature
The nomenclature from Schaub and Junkins shall be used throughout the implementation, including for the naming of the operations (e.g.
AddvsMul).