Hi Timo and welcome. Someone who has more knowledge of the mechanics module will need to answer your specific question about quaternions. I will point out that SymPy does have a quaternions module in sympy.algebras.quaternions, so you would most likely want to make use of that for that project.
If you haven't seen it already, be aware of the patch requirement for GSoC. https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Student-Instructions. You will need to make at least one pull request to SymPy that gets accepted. It doesn't necessarily have to be related to your project, so you can start by finding a bug to fix. Aaron Meurer On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 6:53 AM Timo Stienstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > My name is Timo Stienstra. After completing my BSc. Mechanical Engineering > with a minor Computer Science, I am now in my first year MSc. Mechanical > Engineering student at Delft University of Technology. Here I follow the > track BioMechanical Design, where I also specialize myself in robotics. > I am interested in contributing to the mechanics module of SymPy, but for > GSoC I would specifically like to focus on further developing construction of > systems from bodies and joints. > However I am not sure how to interpret one of the suggested next steps, > namely Make the rotations quaternion based. Could someone elaborate on what > is meant with this step? > I know that the orientation of the child body with respect to the parent > could be described by a quaternion, but the orientation is in the end saved > as a rotation matrix within the ReferenceFrame objects. And I do not think > that the goal of this step is changing this in the ReferenceFrame class. > > Regards, > Timo Stienstra > GitHub: https://github.com/TJStienstra > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/79a38c56-e280-4591-8ac0-11823c9e27e7n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KxacCndHRXG%3DZKA-2v6auimEG1K5tjoCbLp8oe60jB2g%40mail.gmail.com.
