Motion, Unit Dual Quaternion and Motion Optimization

2022/12/22 by Qi, Liqun
#FOS: Mathematics #Optimization and Control (math.OC)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.11593

Abstract

We introduce motions as real six-dimensional vectors. A motion means a rotation and a translation. We define a motion operator which maps unit dual quaternions to motions, and a UDQ operator which maps motions to unit dual quaternions. By these operators, we present the formulation of motion optimization, which is actually a real unconstrained optimization formulation. Then we formulate two classical problems in robot research, i.e., the hand-eye calibration problem and the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem as motion optimization problems. This opens a new way to solve these problems via real unconstrained optimization.

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