Why and How to Avoid the Flipped Quaternion Multiplication

Over the last decades quaternions have become a crucial and very successful tool for attitude representation in robotics and aerospace. However, there is a major problem that is continuously causing trouble in practice when it comes to exchanging formulas or implementations: there are two quaternion...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sommer, Hannes, Gilitschenski, Igor, Bloesch, Michael, Weiss, Stephan, Siegwart, Roland, Nieto, Juan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118190