University of Notre Dame
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME 469: Introduction to Robotics
Homework 2

B. Goodwine
Spring, 2001
Issued: January 26, 2001
Due: January 31, 2001

All the problems are from the course text, Craig, Introduction to Robotics. Unless otherwise indicated, each problem is worth 10 points.

  1. 2.3
  2. 2.5
  3. 2.14
    Hint: see Example 2.9.
  4. 2.20
    Hint: let K = (Kx, Ky, Kz)T and Q = (Qx, Qy, Qz)T and simply expand Rodruques' formula to verify that it is the same as the matrix given in Equation 2.80 multiplied by Q.
  5. 2.23
  6. 2.35
  7. 2.38
    Hint: use the matrix multiplication representation of the dot product and the fact that the angle between the two vectors remains fixed.


Last updated: January 26, 2001.
B. Goodwine (jgoodwin@nd.edu)