SE(3) Special Euclidian Group

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Source: Forster 2017 – IMU Preintegration

Group of rigid motion in 3D.
Consists of

  • a rotation in SO(3)
  • a translation in $\mathbb{R}^3$

$$\begin{aligned} \text{SE}(3) \dot{=} \left\lbrace \left(\mathbf{R}, \mathbf{p} \right) : \mathbf{R} \in \text{SO}(3), \mathbf{p} \in \mathbb{R}^3 \right\rbrace \end{aligned}$$

$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf{T}_1\mathbf{T}_2 &= \left( \mathbf{R}_1\mathbf{R}_2, \mathbf{R}_1\mathbf{p}_2 + \mathbf{p}_1 \right)\
\mathbf{T}_1^{-1} &= \left( \mathbf{R}_1^\text{T}, -\mathbf{R}_1^{\text{T}}\mathbf{p}_1 \right) \end{aligned}$$