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This chapter introduces the notation that is used throughout the work.
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This work is based on the following notation:
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Scalars are denoted with regular characters, such as a, \(\alpha \), V, or \(\Psi \).
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Vectors are denoted by bold lower case characters, such as \(\boldsymbol{v}_\text {c}\) or \(\boldsymbol{\tau }\). The only exception are wrenches
, which are a combination of a Cartesian force \(\boldsymbol{f}\in \mathbb {R}^3\) and torque \(\boldsymbol{\tau }\in \mathbb {R}^3\).
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Matrices are denoted by bold upper case characters, such as \(\boldsymbol{M}\) or \(\boldsymbol{\Lambda }\).
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Round and square brackets are used to combine symbols into vectors and matrices, respectively. For instance, a vector is given by
and a matrix by
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The Euclidean norm of a vector is denoted by \(\left\| \bullet \right\| \), as for instance \(\left\| \boldsymbol{g}_0 \right\| = \sqrt{ \boldsymbol{g}_0^T \, \boldsymbol{g}_0}\).
In general, vectors and matrices can be expressed with respect to the base vectors of any arbitrary frame. In order to indicate the choice of base vectors, the notation is extended by a leading superscript: For instance, \(^A\boldsymbol{\lambda }\) and \(^B\boldsymbol{\lambda }\) indicate that the vector \(\boldsymbol{\lambda }\) is given with respect to the base vectors of frame \(\mathcal {F}_A\) or \(\mathcal {F}_B\), respectively. For simplicity of notation, all position, velocity, force, and torque vectors are expressed in world coordinates, that is with respect to the base vectors of the world frame \(\mathcal {W}\), unless otherwise mentioned. The superscript \({^\mathcal {W}\bullet }\) will be dropped.
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Henze, B. (2022). Notation. In: Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 143. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87212-0_2
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