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It was probably Study who first considered the possible positions of a rigid body as points in a non-Euclidian space; see Study [118]. His idea was to specify the position of the body by attaching a coordinate frame to it. He called these ‘points’ soma, which is Greek for body. He then used dual quaternions as coordinates for the space. As we saw in Section 9.3, using the dual quaternion representation, the elements of the group of rigid body motions can be thought of as the points of a six-dimensional projective quadric (excluding a 3-plane of ‘ideal’ points). If we fix a particular position of the rigid body as the home position, then all other positions of the body can be described by the unique transformation that takes the home configuration to the present one. In this way, we see that Study’s somas are just the points of the six-dimensional projective quadric, the Study quadric, (not forgetting to exclude the points on the special 3-plane).
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(2005). The Study Quadric. In: Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27274-7_11
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