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A schematic of the rolling for the equations of motion determination.

The Rolling Wheel Equations without Magic:
A Combined Slip-Stiction Approach by the Udwadia-Kalaba Formulation with Constraints Relaxation for a Smooth Simulation.

Abstract

The Udwadia-Kalaba formulation is proposed to model the dynamics of the rolling wheel. A unified approach that addresses both the slip and the stiction in the contact section is considered. Purely rolling constraints are associated with stiction and are suitably lifted as slip occurs. An extended formulation for the Uwadia-Kalaba equations of motion is introduced for that matter. It resorts to the weighted minimum norm and the weighted semi-least-squares solutions of the constraints equations. This not only allows a bias on constraints, by an appropriate description of weight functions based on friction, it also leads to a smooth activation or deactivation of selected constraints without rewriting the equations of motion or upsetting their numerical integration.

People were aiming cannonballs… for thousands of years before Newton, but without Newton’s laws, we would not have been able to go to the moon [1].

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