The diver with a rotor

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2016.04.003zbMATH Open1369.70006arXiv1510.02978OpenAlexW3103685467MaRDI QIDQ344730FDOQ344730

Authors: Sudarsh Bharadwaj, Nathan Duignan, H. R. Dullin, Karen Leung, William Tong 

Publication date: 24 November 2016

Published in: Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present and analyse a simple model for the twisting somersault. The model is a rigid body with a rotor attached which can be switched on and off. This makes it simple enough to devise explicit analytical formulas whilst still maintaining sufficient complexity to preserve the shape-changing dynamics essential for twisting somersaults in springboard and platform diving. With `rotor on' and with `rotor off' the corresponding Euler-type equations can be solved, and the essential quantities characterising the dynamics, such as the periods and rotation numbers, can be computed in terms of complete elliptic integrals. Thus we arrive at explicit formulas for how to achieve a dive with m somersaults and n twists in a given total time. This can be thought of as a special case of a geometric phase formula due to Cabrera 2007.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02978

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric phasegyroscoperigid body dynamicstwisting somersault

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Integrable cases of motion in rigid body dynamics (70E40) Dynamics of multibody systems (70E55) Robot dynamics and control of rigid bodies (70E60) Motion of the gyroscope (70E05)

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