[ODE] gyroscopes

Martin C. Martin martin at metahuman.org
Thu Jun 12 11:33:01 2003


Nate W wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jun 2003, Bob Cohen wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to simulate several gyroscopes interacting with each other,
> > with high rates of rotation (~1-10k rpm).

ODE can have problems if the angle you turn through in a single timestep
(i.e. AngularVelocity * delta_t) goes beyond where sin(theta) ~= theta.

> For that matter, does ODE model gyroscopic precession?

It should.

- Martin