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Consistent Jacobian and its derivatives of BallJoint and FreeJoint #284

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@jslee02 jslee02 commented Dec 11, 2014

This pull request change the computation of the Jacobians and Jacobian derivatives in consistent way. Previously, the generalized velocities and accelerations of BallJoint and FreeJoint were the spatial velocities and spatial accelerations, which are relative velocities and accelerations between the parent body node and the child body node, so their Jacobians and its derivatives were identity and zero matrices, respectively. The benefit of doing so is that the Jacobians and its derivatives don't need to be computed over simulation steps but the problem is that the velocities, accelerations, Jacobians and Jacobian derivatives are not consistent with the generalized coordinates.

Note that the target branch of this PR is release-4.2.

@jslee02 jslee02 added this to the Release DART 4.2 milestone Dec 11, 2014
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Consistent Jacobian and its derivatives of BallJoint and FreeJoint
@karenliu karenliu merged commit 02e2a35 into release-4.2 Dec 11, 2014
@jslee02 jslee02 deleted the joint_jacobians branch January 7, 2015 06:21
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