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roll-pitch-yaw and heading-pitch-bank, difference?

Started by V3rt3x Feb 8, 2005 at 2:03 PM 2 replies 16.8k views
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V3rt3x
V3rt3x
Hi, I read in my 3D math book that “heading-pitch-bank” was also called “roll-pitch-yaw” with roll=bank and yaw=heading, but it is not very clear if the order of rotations (around y, x and z axes for heading-pitch-bank) was the same or not (z-x-y axes for roll-pitch-yaw? or same as heading-pitch-bank, heading/bank and roll/yaw words are just swapped?). Thank you.
healeyx76
healeyx76
RPY is the same as the heading notation. Its also called XYZ Euler, which means you apply the rotation matrices like so:
Rr = RotationMatrix of ROLL degrees about X axis
Rp = RotationMatrix of PITCH degrees abotu Y axis
Ry = RotationMatrix of YAW degrees about Z axis
Assumign orientation matrix O

New O = Ry*Rp*Rr*O, the roll is applied first I believe.
V3rt3x
V3rt3x
Ok, thanks.

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