[ODE] joint friction

[Max Lungarella]

hi russ,

yes, your model sounds perfectly reasonable to me. thank you very much. but what about ball and socket joints? is there a way to set something similar to an "fmax" parameter for them? was not able to figure out any function dealing with it.

thanks a lot!

cheers,
	max


> > i may be asking something that is documented somewhere.
> > but anyhow ... is there a way to enable friction in the joints?
> 
> there is a good and simple way to do this. set the joint 'fmax' parameter
> to some (positive) value. set the desired velocity parameter to 0. now the
> joint will exert a force up to fmax to bring the joint velocity down to 0.
> this is actually a pretty good model of coulomb friction for a joint.
> changing fmax to be higher will give more friction - and there's no
> stability problem with choosing any value of fmax >= 0.
> 
> russ.
> 
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> Russ Smith
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