Hi, Simone. I don't think there is a pre-existing function that would provide exactly the quantity you want. That might be a nice addition! However I can think of a few ways to get it: - thinking of a free-body diagram, use F=MA to obtain the net spatial force F from the body's spatial inertia M and...

:facepalm: yes of course you're right. You want partial(acceleration)/partial(state). Simbody can provide acceleration(state) (fast) but you would have to differentiate that numerically to get the matrix. That's easy to do by hand or using Simbody's Differentiator class.

Sherm

You can obtain the system Jacobian using

SimbodyMatterSubsystem::calcSystemJacobian(). I believe the manual is referring to the eigenvalues of this matrix as the system modes.

Sherm

Hi, Amit. Good question! Terminology for transforms and rotation matrices is tricky, because they serve as both "verb" and "noun" depending on your point of view. As a verb, we have v_B=R_BG * v_G, mapping G to B (as long as you multiply from the left!). The notation ensures you get that correct bec...

According to the OpenSim documentation here it uses a Simbody PointInPlane constraint for the normal contact. That is described here . I'm not sure why it wasn't implemented by a Simbody SphereOnPlaneContact constraint, but I believe it produces a similar result. Ajay Seth might have further insight...

The constraint is applied at the point of contact.
- Sherm

Thanks for your kind remarks -- I'm glad you're finding Simbody useful. Yes, minimizing PE only finds stable equilibria. You should be able to find everything you need in SimbodyMatterSubsystem . For example you can calculate accelerations udot directly with calcAccelerations() and you can convert t...

Yes, a Free (6dof) joint for the body and Pin (1dof revolute) joints for the propellers.

Hi, Nat. There is one ragdoll among the Simbody examples that I know of. It's called "Gazebo2Simbody" and is mostly about reading .sdf files. But the .sdf it reads by default is a ragdoll -- you can run it and see the ragdoll fall down.

Regards,
Sherm

Definitely possible since we don't currently build Simbody on arm64 Macs in CI. If you have access to one and are able to find the problem we would welcome a pull request so others can benefit!