Expressing Vectors in Different Frames Using Rotation Matrices

[@ChristopherLum]

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[@davidtelgen8114]

AE 512: it's always useful to review how the handy rotation matrices were actually derived!

[@ChristopherLum]

Dave, good to see you are getting a head start on the lectures. Keep me posted on how things go in the future!

[@jdanderson9727]

Christopher is a great teacher for engineers in an adjacent discipline. He doesn't drag you back to sixth grade, at the same time, he doesn't fly over important details you need. He is the teacher's teacher. I subscribed half way through my first video of his.

[@ShivaShakerii]

AA 516: During my bachelor's degree, I took a Mechatronics course that introduced these fundamental concepts. Initially, I found them quite perplexing, but your clear and engaging explanation has now illuminated my understanding. Thanks for making those concepts accessible and easy to grasp!

[@KTLifestyle]

Best 45 minutes I've ever spent on KZbin.

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful. There are other similar videos on the channel please feel free to check them out. Thanks for watching!

[@petermay6090]

AA 516: Very clear examples of how rotation matrices work, thanks!

[@tonymcdaniel6878]

AA516: A great refresher on reference frame and awesome visual understanding to frame rotations.

[@reesetaylor3506]

AE 512: The notation used for expressing rotations of vectors has always confused me and this video really helped clarify/simplify it, thanks!

[@prabhjeetsingharora]

Amazing explanation of a very complex concept especially for the freshers in this field. Thank you Dr. Lum.

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Prabhjeet, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. Thanks for watching! -Chris

[@sunnysarkar7643]

AE 512: The references to dihedral and anhedral were fun and nice for an aero lecture

[@vocasle]

Thank you Mr. Lum. After your explanation I was finally able to see how to deduce rotation matrix!

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Nikita, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum or via the 'Thanks' button underneath the video. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. I can also answer any questions, provide code, notes, downloads, etc. on Patreon. Thanks for watching! -Chris

[@radoraan5272]

Thank you for all this series Dr Lum! It has really help me to be able to understand this topics, even when i alredy viewed them in my flight dynamics course

[@sianhoan833]

AA516: I was also going to mention multiple rotations about different axes until you mentioned it last minute. I appreciated the reminder on definition of Eigenvalues, I don't use it often enough to remember it but it also pops up often enough that I'd want to keep it in mind.

[@rwikrana]

AA516 2024 Wi : Really good explanation. Intuitive diagrams! WOrk on drones, so this was insightful and refreshing.

[@zacharywilliams2436]

Easy to follow, rotation matrices make a lot more sense now

[@karanpathak2106]

The best in-depth explanation that I've ever found. Thank you so much!

[@ChristopherLum]

You're very welcome, this is a part of a series of videos on the channel. Please feel free to check them out and let me know what you think. Thanks for watching!

[@shavykashyap]

AA516 : thank you for the clear explanation

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[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Mehmet, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum or via the 'Thanks' button underneath the video. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. Thanks for watching! -Chris

[@beritsyltebo3940]

Very easy to follow; makes spatial reasoning easy!

[@Kumky605]

AA516: Forgot to comment on this when I watched it the first time but very clear examples and applicatioon of rotation matrices

[@Eomji_Kim]

AA516: Watching the application of rotation matrices to aircraft motion was an interesting part as an AA student.

[@kajalparmar6776]

Great lecture professor..it helped me a lot in understanding this topic. thanks a lot

[@newschool050]

Thank you Christopher for making it easy.

[@milesbridges3547]

AA 516: Clear and easy to follow! I appreciate the explanations on the subscript notations of the rotation matrices since I always mix those up.

[@ChristopherLum]

Yes, the notation is going to be critical especially when we start chaining together multiple rotations.

[@wiloberlies9598]

Thank you Dr Lum, this was very well done, and I'm very much looking forward to the rest of the videos in this series, as well as the control theory stuff. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.

[@SayedTorak]

AE 512: Good refresher!

[@saberxebeck]

I hope Fred appreciates us going from his base to his tip 1:22 lol. But seriously these videos are absolutely amazing their very well explained thank you

[@jamesdavey3101]

Always nice to have notation clarified.

[@sethwhittington28]

AE512: I never knew what a rotation matrix was! Thank you for clarifying that!

[@ChristopherLum]

This gets much more interesting later on down the road.

[@inderbhangal5419]

AA 516: Great lecture to illustrate rotation matrices and their uses.

[@swedishfish169176]

Awesome lecture. Really helped me to understand what was going on. Great examples. Thank you!

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful thanks for watching!

[@WalkingDeaDJ]

Jason-AE512: Thanks for the explanation.

[@r05rahul]

Very nice explanation 👌

[@duytanvu4938]

amazing, i see how Rotation Matrices are created, really thanks alot

[@xxroco0418xx]

Nice content ,will help me along with a dued project .

[@arastooajorian9069]

you are the best! that was the best tutorial in this topic I've ever seen. thank you

[@christophgerhardt6141]

you got my thumsup after the first example with the drone in the air :D :D like so much!

[@ChristopherLum]

Thanks, I've got a few other similar videos on the channel with drones, please feel free to check them out. Thanks for watching!

[@jacobcarroll3933]

What a wonderful example.

[@bsgove]

AE512: Good refresher here

[@zwww_ee5235]

clear and easy to understand explanation! 45 minutes well spent ! thanks for the effort >

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nice Fred and Joe hats

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Your videos are very useful. Great job man!

[@ChristopherLum]

Glad you like them, thanks for watching!

[@phuctruong1825]

Thanks so much for the deep explanation :)

[@athilgeorge8945]

Thank you Dr. Lum!

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The QUT drip goes hard in this video. That's where I study.

[@khizarmohammedamjedmohamed6184]

Very well explained.

[@sidraman6950]

Informative and easy to follow

[@tilio9380]

How much effort goes into making these lecture videos? Chris: Yes.

[@ChristopherLum]

Haha, yes you are correct, they do take some effort but there are also fun to make. Thanks for watching!

[@Po-ChihHuang]

AA516 Amazing explanation! Po

[@BahadirTubay]

Amazing explanation! I will do great during exam thank you

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!

[@homemadejam4307]

Thank you for your wonderful work !

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum or via the 'Thanks' button underneath the video. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. I can also answer any questions, provide code, notes, downloads, etc. on Patreon. Thanks for watching! -Chris

[@carlosgalvis4538]

Excellent! Very useful

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful. There are several related videos on the channel. Please feel free to check them out and I would love to hear what you think in the comments. Thanks for watching!

[@carlosgalvis4538]

@@ChristopherLum I just saw the video about Euler Angles and it was amazing too!!. Christopher, I am facing some challenges dealing with segment-fixed coordinate systems, but my field of study is Biomechanics..... Any suggestion to overcome my challenges?

[@edwardmau5877]

AE 512 The tip for keeping notation in check when using rotation matricies is useful, esepcially the note that we’re assuming a right hand angle rotation.

[@ChristopherLum]

Yes, the notation is going to be helpful in some of the future discussions.

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hey brother, I love you stuff... and I find your over-use of the word "here" hilariously awesome!!!! I am thinking of teaching my self some machine learning and I am planning to build a program that can detect and count the number of times you say "here" LOL. Since you have lots of videos I have loads of data to train the network. (i hope you aren't offended by what I said, it just goes to show how much I love and watch your videos!)

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi DJ, No worries, I know I say that I lot, it seems to be my tic when lecturing. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos, thanks for watching! -Chris

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[@ChristopherLum]

@@djredrover I am able to take requests, talk about concepts, and answer questions via my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. Thanks for watching! -Chris

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[@helenkuni9039]

Great explanation!

[@thatWMDdude]

anhedral/dihedral pop ups made me laugh. that was a nice touch

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Brian, great to hear from you, I'm glad it was entertaining. I'll try to have more popups in future videos.

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You've got a very nice backyard! Make sure to water those plants though also nice video too

[@megajohny143]

rubbed my eyes several time for clearing vision and each time I noticed that it was camera getting blurred of a moment and clearing up :D

[@milesrobertroane955]

AA516 What helps me with the rotation notation is thinking of the subscripts/superscripts as units. So the r basis on the left side 1/r * r --> cancels to leave us in frame 1

[@ChristopherLum]

That's a good way to think of it, great observation!

[@Hannah08LV]

thanks for the lecture!

[@Colin_Baxter_UW]

AA516: Thank you for the refresher. Will we be covering quaternions in this course and, if not, what benefits do they have over DCMs?

[@ChristopherLum]

You're a few weeks ahead of the game but you are correct, we'll be looking at quaternions in week 3. Stay tuned!

[@mentamiralemu8948]

i am honoured,thank you very much

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Mentamir, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum or via the 'Thanks' button underneath the video. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. Thanks for watching! -Chris

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Tahnk you soooooo much!

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Super Dr Lum,,,,Awesome lecture,,just one suggestion if you could do this on MATLAB to show some graphical and coding skills ,I hope you will do it for lazy or lame students like me

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In which video in the playlist where gimbal lock is mentioned or explained?

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Great master,😃

[@princekeoki4603]

AA516 : Interesting how rotation matricies are orthogonal. Are there any physical scenarios where you would need to find the rotation matrix when given the input and output vectors?

[@daviddevine2415]

AE512: what is the difference between a frame, a basis, and a coordinate system? Thanks for the video!

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Dave, these are good questions. A frame and coordinate systems are sometimes used interchangeably. Some authors consider a coordinate system to be a frame with an origin attached to it. A basis is typically a higher order concept as you can have a basis of functions instead of just directions. This might be easier to chat about at office hours, please remind me if you'd like to talk at our next meeting, thanks.

[@trickboi3543]

thank you

[@rowellcastro2683]

AA516: Just a clarifying question in the topic of switching between the rotation matrix indices (42:20), Do we use C_(1/r), the original rotation matrix, for rotating clockwise; and then C_(r/1), transposed rotation matrix, for rotating counter-clockwise? Thanks!

[@ChristopherLum]

We use this notation to help keep track when we chain multiple rotations together. I can talk more about this at office hours if you like.

[@eyo3303]

awesome

[@mikeandrewputerakurnia5572]

cool stuff

[@kennethwilsey6260]

AA516 Is there a more efficient way to derive the rotation matrix (I'm thinking of something that can be implemented repeatedly in software), or is deriving by hand using angles such as psi the main method? Thanks Dr. Lum

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi Ken, Good observation. In practice, we'll just want to derive these once and then memorize or implement these rotation matrices in a software package. You can code it yourself or leverage the Matlab Aerospace blockset/toolbox for some of this. -Chris

[@nathanlipshutz3140]

AE512: Chris, for some reason I usually use a rotation matrix about z that is Rz = [cos(theta) -sin(theta) 0 ; sin(theta) cos(theta) 0 ; 0 0 1] as opposed to the one you derived Rz = [cos(theta) sin(theta) 0 ; -sin(theta) cos(theta) 0 ; 0 0 1] in matlab syntax. Can you explain the discrepancy? I believe they are both attempting to perform the same transformation.

[@ChristopherLum]

Often this is a matter of which frame you are rotating to/from. The order of the subscripts matters a lot in these situations

[@nathanlipshutz3140]

Ah I think I see. It seems that somehow they are doing the opposite transformation.

[@AndersonYuan-j7g]

AA 516: Celeste Yuan (Late due to name discrepancies discussed)

[@ilovehorses38]

i think it's easier if you were to project onto the former frame instead of onto the newer frame.

[@nataliakosenko5918]

Excuse me, could you give an example of a frame in linear algebra, please?

[@ChristopherLum]

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[@wocannaseilai5983]

At 17:07, why is it we can assume that P_1 = A_1 + B_1 + C_1?

[@ChristopherLum]

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Ojasvi Kamboj - AA 516

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[@ravipashchapur5803]

May I know the author name of the book you are referring? It would be helpful.

[@ChristopherLum]

I use the textbook by Stevens and Lewis. If you have specific questions I can interact more via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum, thanks for watching!

[@ravipashchapur5803]

@@ChristopherLum thank you so much.

[@kaikim8402]

i cant really get my head around with the sign convention @20:00 and @21:37 ... anyone?

[@kaikim8402]

Think of it as just XY plane. As frame Fr rotates to F1, the components on a_hat rotate (phi) clockwise which results in y_axis (in Frame1) on a_hat(in Frame1 ) to be -alpha*cos(phi). omg, It took me 7 months to understand this.

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First comment!

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Thanks! Has anyone ever told you that you look like Donnie Yen?

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi, Haha, no I've never heard that but thanks for the kind words. Also let me say thank you for your generous support of the channel, it is very much appreciated! Do you have any particular interests in terms of videos or topics? I try to prioritize request made by interested parties as much as possible as I plan future videos. If you are interested, I interact personally with all Patreon members at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum. Given your interest in the topic, I'd love to have you as a Patron. In any event, I want to again say thank you for your contribution and for supporting the channel. I hope to hear from you at a future KZbin video or on Patreon!

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[@ChristopherLum]

@@khoavo5758 Awesome, please let me know if you have any suggestions for future videos or if you'd like to discuss any of the videos. I hope to hear from you again soon!

[@BHARGAV_GAJJAR]

well the z axis goes into the center of the page or Earth ? Well then next video journey to the center of the earth.

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AA 516

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