Kinematics of General Spatial Mechanical Systems. M. Kemal Ozgoren
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(3.171)
It is called nonlinear if
(3.172)
In the case of a linear relationship,
(3.173)
Note that a linear relationship is also homogeneous, but a nonlinear relationship may or may not be homogeneous.
1 (c) Affine Relationship
The relationship set up by
In Eq. (3.174),
Note that a general affine relationship with
3.9.3 Affine Coordinate Transformation Between Two Reference Frames
As mentioned before in Section 3.9.1, the column matrices
In Eq. (3.175),
If the point P is observed in several different reference frames such as
(3.176)
(3.177)
(3.178)
(3.179)
As for the overall affine transformation equation, it can be written as
Upon successive substitutions, the preceding equations lead to the following combined equations.
(3.181)
(3.182)
Equations (3.180) and (3.183) show the necessity of using the following set of equations in order to obtain the combined rotation and translation matrices.