Rocket-Car

Modeling of a Variable-Mass Nonholonomic Gyrostatic Rocket Car using Extended Kane's Equations

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My implementation of the rocket-engine-powered jet racing car example from [Ge, Z.M. and Cheng, Y.H., 1982] in Python (SymPy/PyDy)

References:

1. Ge, Z.M. and Cheng, Y.H., 1982. Extended Kane’s equations for nonholonomic variable mass system.
2. Kane, T.R., 1978. Nonholonomic multibody systems containing gyrostats. In Dynamics of Multibody Systems (pp. 97-107). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.