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More than 150 years after their invention by Hamilton, quaternions are now widely used in the aerospace and computer animation industries to track the paths of moving objects undergoing three-axis rotations. It is shown here that they…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. D. Gibbon

We present a novel approach for solving articulated inverse kinematic problems (e.g., character structures) by means of an iterative dual-quaternion and exponentialmapping approach. As dual-quaternions are a break from the norm and offer a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ben Kenwright

Quaternions provide a unified algebraic and geometric framework for representing three-dimensional rotations without the singularities that afflict Euler-angle parametrisations. This article develops a pedagogical and conceptual analysis of…

We give a simple and self contained introduction to quaternions and their practical usage in dynamics. The rigid body dynamics are presented in full details. In the appendix, some more exotic relations are given that allow to write more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-11-19 Basile Graf

We review the general problem of finding a global rotation that transforms a given set of points and/or coordinate frames (the "test" data) into the best possible alignment with a corresponding set (the "reference" data). For 3D point data,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-16 Andrew J. Hanson

This paper investigates the orientation, position, and linear velocity estimation problem of a rigid-body moving in three-dimensional (3D) space with six degrees-of-freedom (6 DoF). The highly nonlinear navigation kinematics are formulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Khashayar Ghanizadegan , Hashim A. Hashim

This study investigates the theoretical and computational aspects of quaternion generalized inverses, focusing on outer inverses and {1,2}-inverses with prescribed range and/or null space constraints. In view of the non-commutative nature…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Neha Bhadala , Ratikanta Behera

This paper introduces an advanced Quaternion-based Unscented Kalman Filter (QUKF) for real-time, robust estimation of system states and external wrenches in assistive aerial payload transportation systems that engage in direct physical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Hussein Naser , Hashim A. Hashim , Mojtaba Ahmadi

Numerous attempts have been made to replicate the success of complex-valued algebra in engineering and science to other hypercomplex domains such as quaternions, tessarines, biquaternions, and octonions. Perhaps, none have matched the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Clive Cheong Took

This work presents a novel target-free extrinsic calibration algorithm for a 3D Lidar and an IMU pair using an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) which exploits the \textit{motion based calibration constraint} for state update. The steps include,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Subodh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

A novel framework for a unifying treatment of quaternion valued adaptive filtering algorithms is introduced. This is achieved based on a rigorous account of quaternion differentiability, the proposed I-gradient, and the use of augmented…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Cyrus Jahanchahi , Danilo P. Mandic

Rotations on the 3-dimensional Euclidean vector-space can be represented by real quaternions, as was shown by Hamilton. Introducing complex quaternions allows us to extend the result to elliptic and hyperbolic rotations on the Minkowski…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-17 Pierre Pellat-Finet

This work addresses the critical lack of precision in state estimation in the Kalman filter for 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) and the ongoing challenge of selecting the appropriate motion model. Existing literature commonly relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mohamed Nagy , Naoufel Werghi , Bilal Hassan , Jorge Dias , Majid Khonji

The analytic integration and simplification of multi-loop Feynman integrals to special functions and constants plays an important role to perform higher order perturbative calculations in the Standard Model of elementary particles. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Johannes Blümlein , Carsten Schneider

Geometry of the state space is known to play a crucial role in many applications of Kalman filters, especially robotics and motion tracking. The Lie group-centric approach is currently very common, although a Riemannian approach has also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Mateusz Baran , Ronny Bergmann

Quaternions, discovered by Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the 19th century, are a significant extension of complex numbers and a profound tool for understanding three-dimensional rotations. This work explores the quaternion's history,…

Quaternions are important for a wide variety of rotation-related problems in computer graphics, machine vision, and robotics. We study the nontrivial geometry of the relationship between quaternions and rotation matrices by exploiting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Andrew J. Hanson , Sonya M. Hanson

The Kalman filter and its extensions are used in a vast number of aerospace and navigation applications for nonlinear state estimation of time series. In the literature, different approaches have been proposed to exploit the structure of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Matti Raitoharju , Robert Piché

This work introduces an algorithm for state estimation on manifolds within the framework of the Kalman filter. Its primary objective is to provide a methodology enabling the evaluation of the precision of existing Kalman filter variants…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Svyatoslav Covanov , Cedric Pradalier

It is known that quaternions represent rotations in 3D Euclidean and Minkowski spaces. However, product by a quaternion gives rotation in two independent planes at once and to obtain single-plane rotations one has to apply by half-angle…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Merab Gogberashvili