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% Ryan Steindl based on Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB (v6 and v9)
%
% Copyright (C) 1993-2011, by Peter I. Corke
%
% This file is part of The Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB (RTB).
%
% RTB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
% it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
% the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
% (at your option) any later version.
%
% RTB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
% GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
%
% You should have received a copy of the GNU Leser General Public License
% along with RTB. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
%
% http://www.petercorke.com
function qp = mpower(q, p)
%Quaternion.mpower Raise quaternion to integer power
%
% Q^N is quaternion Q raised to the integer power N, and computed by repeated multiplication.
% check that exponent is an integer
if (p - floor(p)) ~= 0
error('quaternion exponent must be integer');
end
qp = q;
% multiply by itself so many times
for i = 2:abs(p)
qp = qp * q;
end
% if exponent was negative, invert it
if p<0
qp = inv(qp);
end
end