Attitude of Mass of Cylinder and Capsule Wrong

[basil-huber]

In the functions Model::addCylinder(...) and Model::addCapsule take the direction of the axis of the cylinder. We pass this direction to dMassSetCylinderTotal. We then set the cylinder's attitude depending on the orientation. This means we first set the orientation of the mass correct and then turned it to be wrong.

boost::shared_ptr<SimpleBody> Model::addCylinder(float mass,
        const osg::Vec3& pos, int direction, float radius, float height,
        int label) {
    dMass massOde;
    dMassSetCylinderTotal(&massOde, mass, direction, radius, height);
    dxGeom* g = dCreateCylinder(this->getCollisionSpace(), radius, height);
    osg::Quat rotateCylinder;
    if (direction == 1) {
        rotateCylinder.makeRotate(osg::inDegrees(90.0), osg::Vec3(0, 1, 0));
    } else if (direction == 2) {
        rotateCylinder.makeRotate(osg::inDegrees(90.0), osg::Vec3(1, 0, 0));
    }

    boost::shared_ptr<SimpleBody> body(new SimpleBody(shared_from_this(),
                massOde, g, pos, rotateCylinder));
    this->addBody(body, label);
    return body;

[jauerb]

Perhaps you are right? I would have to take a closer look. Do you have a demo showing the wrong behavior?

On 10/20/2016 10:15 AM, Basil Huber wrote:

In the functions Model::addCylinder(...) and Model::addCapsule take the direction of the axis of the cylinder. We pass this direction to dMassSetCylinderTotal. We then set the cylinder's attitude depending on the orientation. This means we first set the orientation of the mass correct and then turned it to be wrong.

|boost::shared_ptr Model::addCylinder(float mass, const osg::Vec3& pos, int direction, float radius, float height, int label) { dMass massOde; dMassSetCylinderTotal(&massOde, mass, direction, radius, height); dxGeom* g = dCreateCylinder(this->getCollisionSpace(), radius, height); osg::Quat rotateCylinder; if (direction == 1) { rotateCylinder.makeRotate(osg::inDegrees(90.0), osg::Vec3(0, 1, 0)); } else if (direction == 2) { rotateCylinder.makeRotate(osg::inDegrees(90.0), osg::Vec3(1, 0, 0)); } boost::shared_ptr body(new SimpleBody(shared_from_this(), massOde, g, pos, rotateCylinder)); this->addBody(body, label); return body; |

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Dr. Joshua E. Auerbach Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratory of Intelligent Systems École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

[basil-huber]

I'll upload one tomorrow

[basil-huber]

I uploaded a demo of the bug on the following branch: https://github.com/basil-huber/robogen/tree/test/inertia

To execute, just run ./inertia-test; In the test case, a torque is applied to a cylinder along different axis. The cylinder is expected to rotate fastest around its axis of symmetry (z) and slow around the other axis. However, it rotates fastest around the x axis, indicating that the moment of inertia has its axis of symmetry along the x axis.