Solving multibody dynamics problems using Python
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32972/dms.2017.002Keywords:
multibody dynamics, Python, Sympy, EOMAbstract
The aim of this paper is inform the reader with possibilities of deriving equations of motion for arbitrarily complex multibody systems using Python programming language. Sympy is a library of functions for Python and a full computer algebra system (CAS) which has among others a built-in feature that allows assembling a multibody system and derive corresponding equations of motion.
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