Motion of a Rigid Body under Random Perturbation

Ming Liao (Auburn University, USA)
Longmin Wang (Nankai University, P. R. China)

Abstract


We use stochastic analysis to study the random motion of a rigid body under a white noise perturbation. We obtain a formula for the angular velocity in an average sense and discuss the stability near a principle axis.

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Pages: 235-243

Publication Date: December 13, 2005

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v10-1163

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