Matlab for Euler angles

[slewis]

Hi all
I am a fairly new Matlab user and wondering if anyone can help. I have lots of global coordinate data and I want to convert these to local coordinates and then calculate Euler angles. I've had a look on Matlab Central but can't find anything that really helps. Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Sandra

[bogert]

Sandra,

Take a look at our Kinemat software at http://isbweb.org/software/movanal/kinemat.

Another useful resource might be the Appendix of Christoph Reinschmidt's dissertation which is online here (http://www.sportsci.com/topics2/Tutorials/digitizing/markers_study/Christoph%20Dissertation.htm).

Ton van den Bogert

[dhume]

Hey Sandra,

Here (http://pastebin.com/s9mbfGvd) is an old .m-file I created to calculate local rotation matrices given global shell coordinates. Once you have [R] it's just some algebra to obtain the Euler angles. You may find this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_angles#Relationship_to_other_representations ) section on Wikipedia helpful.

Donald Hume

[tfeix38]

Hi Sandra,

For coordinate transformations and to switch between various rotation representations I use the robotics toolbox by Peter Corke:
http://petercorke.com/Robotics_Toolbox.html

It all kind of functions to switch between Rotations Matrices, Homogeneous transforms, Quaternions and Euler angles.

Best, Thomas

[twrigley92]

Matlab's Aerospace Toolbox contains routines to extract / convert between various rotational representations: rotation matrices, euler/cardan angles, quaternions (euler parameters), etc.

Tim Wrigley
University of Melbourne

[tandresen]

You might find it helpful to look at the figure [4-6] for Euler angles in Herbert Goldstein’s “Classical Mechanics”. It’s an easy-to-remember diagram.

You should find the book in the library.

Ted

[bhejrati24]

I have the below issue which is related to this thread, I would appreciate if anyone could help me:
We are using VICON system for Kinematic analysis in our lab. I use my own model for motion capturing and I don't use any of VICON templates for humman motion capturing and evaluating the joint angles. What I do is that I use the marker position (x,y,z) obtained from the Vicon and I use the code that I have written to obtain the angles. My question is: If I use the Vicon joint angles instead of my code, are the angles (Euler, helical....) returned by the Vicon, when I check joint kinematics option to save in a Csv file, bio-mechanically meaningful to evaluate flexion/exten, external/internal rotation and etc of human joints? or they are just meaningful when I use the standard templates of the Vicon?

[jwilliams33]

Sandra

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Best of luck

[rg123]

MATLAB has built-in functionality for Euler Angles (http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/euler-angles.html) that would probably be the best to utilize. These would be less error-prone as they have been put through testing for accuracy.