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Posted: **13 Apr 2020, 12:03**

Hi,
I am testing an arm. When I used

sim.addForceAndTorque

function to add torque on the arm, the rotation is not what I excepted. I tried rotating the model around x axis by

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sim.addForceAndTorque(servo_shoulder_right, {0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0})

and rotating the model around z axis by

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sim.addForceAndTorque(servo_shoulder_right, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 1})

. It's all fine. But when I tried rotating it around y axis by

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sim.addForceAndTorque(servo_shoulder_right, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0})

, it failed. I tried troubleshooting the unexcepted behavior by checking the moment of inertia, which shown below. But I couldn't find useful infomation on it.

0.0053074536845088 1.4479227274933e-06 4.3802359869005e-05
1.4479227274933e-06 0.0022340561263263 0.00022103909577709
4.3802359869005e-05 0.00022103909577709 0.018778828904033

Given any object with moment of inertia coupled in any two axes, it's rotation should be affected by each other equally on the coupled axes. However, the scene, that I am testing, seems not.

To find the problem, I simplify the model and it's here
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GPwrm ... WuuTN2k3ra

the simulation result is like video below
https://youtu.be/td_OBNda7uE

Posted: **14 Apr 2020, 14:25**

Hello,

your principal moment of inertia is [x y 0]. Physics engines do not like that. Try to replace the 0 with a small value.

Cheers

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Add Torque on the model, but the rotation was not excepted

Add Torque on the model, but the rotation was not excepted

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