Re: comparison

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Rachel Smith wrote:

> How does Orocos's proposed Kinematics & Dynamics interface at 
> kindyn-doc.html compare to:
> 
> http://opende.sourceforge.net/ode-latest-userguide.html
> 
> ODE seems to have more details on types of Joints, e.g.
> 
Both are complementary: ODE works with free rigid bodies as defaults,
and these free bodies are then subjected to constraints when they
happen to be connected by a joint.  Orocos uses minimal DOF models, in
the sense that joints are the basic building blocks and the algorithms
are optimized for them.

I hope this is somewhat clear :-) ?

Herman

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