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Mechtronics transpose help

98q76e12hrflnk · 2015-04-30 17:51:57

A ship is travelling due south east, position 50km east, 40km north of the reference point. The east is the reference x axis, north is the reference y axis and the vertical is the reference z axis. The ship rolls about it's x axis ( i.e. the ship travels along it's x axis), pitches about it's y axis and yaws about it's z…

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A ship is travelling due south east, position 50km east, 40km north
of the
reference point. The east is the reference x axis, north is the reference y axis and the vertical is the reference z axis. The ship rolls about it's x axis ( i.e. the ship travels along it's x axis), pitches about it's y axis and yaws about it's z axis (the vertical axis of the ship is it's z axis). If the sea is calm and ignoring the curvature of the earth, find a homogeneous transformation that represents the position and orientation of the ship w.r.t. the reference

I don't understand it at all

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