Chinese mathematics

This article is about the Rodrigues' rotation formula, which is distinct from Euler–Rodrigues parameters and The Euler–Rodrigues formula for 3D rotation.

In the theory of three-dimensional rotation, Rodrigues' rotation formula (named after Olinde Rodrigues) is an efficient algorithm for rotating a vector in space, given an axis and angle of rotation. By extension, this can be used to transform all three basis vectors to compute a rotation matrix from an axis–angle representation. In other words, the Rodrigues formula provides an algorithm to compute the exponential map from so(3) to SO(3) without computing the full matrix exponent.

If v is a vector in $\mathbb {R} ^{3}$ and k is a unit vector describing an axis of rotation about which we want to rotate v by an angle θ according to the right hand rule, the Rodrigues formula is:

$\mathbf {v} _{\mathrm {rot} }=\mathbf {v} \cos \theta +(\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} )\sin \theta +\mathbf {k} (\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )(1-\cos \theta ).$

Derivation

Rodrigues' rotation formula rotates v by an angle θ around an axis z by decomposing it into its components parallel and perpendicular to z, and rotating only the perpendicular component.

Given a rotation axis represented by a unit vector k and a vector v that we wish to rotate about k by the angle θ,

$\mathbf {v} _{\parallel }=(\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )\mathbf {k}$

is the component of v parallel to k, also called the vector projection of v on k, and

$\mathbf {v} _{\perp }=\mathbf {v} -\mathbf {v} _{\parallel }=\mathbf {v} -(\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )\mathbf {k}$

is the component of v orthogonal to k, also called the vector rejection of v from k.

Let

$\mathbf {w} =\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v}$.

The vectors v_⊥ and w have the same length, but w is perpendicular to both k and v_⊥. This can be shown via

$\mathbf {w} =\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} =\mathbf {k} \times (\mathbf {v} _{\parallel }+\mathbf {v} _{\perp })=\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} _{\parallel }+\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} _{\perp }=\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} _{\perp },$

since k has unit length, is parallel to v_∥ and is perpendicular to v_⊥.

The vector w can be viewed as a copy of v_⊥ rotated by 90° about k. Using trigonometry, we can now rotate v_⊥ by θ around k to obtain v_{⊥ rot}. Thus,

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {v} _{\perp \ \mathrm {rot} }&=\mathbf {v} _{\perp }\cos \theta +\mathbf {w} \sin \theta \\&=(\mathbf {v} -(\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )\mathbf {k} )\cos \theta +(\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} )\sin \theta .\end{aligned}}$

v_{⊥ rot} is also the rejection from k of the vector v_rot, defined as the desired vector, v rotated bout k by the angle θ. Since v_∥ is not affected by a rotation about k, the projection of v_rot on k coincides with v_∥. Thus,

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {v} _{\mathrm {rot} }&=\mathbf {v} _{\perp \ \mathrm {rot} }+\mathbf {v} _{\parallel \ \mathrm {rot} }\\&=\mathbf {v} _{\perp \ \mathrm {rot} }+\mathbf {v} _{\parallel }\\&=(\mathbf {v} -(\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )\mathbf {k} )\cos \theta +(\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} )\sin \theta +(\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )\mathbf {k} \\&=\mathbf {v} \cos \theta +(\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} )\sin \theta +\mathbf {k} (\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {v} )(1-\cos \theta ),\end{aligned}}$

as required.

Matrix notation

By representing v and k as column matrices, and defining a matrix $[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }$ as the "cross-product matrix" for $\mathbf {k}$, i.e.,

$[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\mathbf {v} =\mathbf {k} \times \mathbf {v} =\left[{\begin{array}{ccc}0&-k_{3}&k_{2}\\k_{3}&0&-k_{1}\\-k_{2}&k_{1}&0\end{array}}\right]\mathbf {v}$,

Rodrigues' formula can be written in matrix notation:

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {v} _{\mathrm {rot} }&=\mathbf {v} \cos \theta +([\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\mathbf {v} )\sin \theta +\mathbf {k} (\mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {v} )(1-\cos \theta )\\&=\mathbf {v} \cos \theta +[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\mathbf {v} \sin \theta +\mathbf {k} \mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {v} (1-\cos \theta ).\end{aligned}}$

Using the triple product expansion it can be written as:

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {v} _{\mathrm {rot} }&=([\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\mathbf {v} )\sin \theta +(\mathbf {k} (\mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {v} )-\mathbf {v} (\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {k} ))(1-\cos \theta )+\mathbf {v} (\mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {k} )\\&=\mathbf {v} +([\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\mathbf {v} )\sin \theta +([\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\mathbf {v} )(1-\cos \theta ).\end{aligned}}$

since $\mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {k} =1$ for a normalized vector.

Conversion to rotation matrix

The equation can be also written as

${\begin{aligned}\mathbf {v} _{\mathrm {rot} }&=(I\cos \theta )\mathbf {v} +([\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\sin \theta )\mathbf {v} +(1-\cos \theta )\mathbf {k} \mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {v} \\&=\left(I\cos \theta +[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\sin \theta +(1-\cos \theta )\mathbf {k} \mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}\right)\mathbf {v} \\&=R\mathbf {v} \end{aligned}}$

where I is the 3×3 identity matrix. Thus we have a formula for the rotation matrix R corresponding to an axis angle representation [k θ]:

$R=I\cos \theta +[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\sin \theta +(1-\cos \theta )\mathbf {k} \mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}$.

Noting that, using the outer product $\mathbf {k} \mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}=[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }^{2}+I$, we have

$R=I+[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }\sin \theta +(1-\cos \theta )[\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }^{2}$

or, equivalently,

$R=I+\sin \theta [\mathbf {k} ]_{\times }+(1-\cos \theta )(\mathbf {k} \mathbf {k} ^{\mathsf {T}}-I)$.

For the inverse mapping, see Log map from SO(3) to so(3).

See also

• Axis angle
• Rotation (mathematics)
• SO(3) and SO(4)
• History of quaternions

References

• Don Koks, (2006) Explorations in Mathematical Physics, Springer Science+Business Media,LLC. ISBN 0-387-30943-8. Ch.4, pps 147 et seq. A Roundabout Route to Geometric Algebra'

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• Johan E. Mebius, Derivation of the Euler-Rodrigues formula for three-dimensional rotations from the general formula for four-dimensional rotations., arXiv General Mathematics 2007.
• For another descriptive example see http://chrishecker.com/Rigid_Body_Dynamics#Physics_Articles, Chris Hecker, physics section, part 4. "The Third Dimension" -- on page 3, section ``Axis and Angle, http://chrishecker.com/images/b/bb/Gdmphys4.pdf