ARoto translation invariance

A.1 Rotations in 2 dimensions In 2-dimensional settings, there exists a single scalar angular position, the yaw angle θ. In order to perform the transformation, we have to express the angular positions in a format suitable for linear transformations; we do so by transforming them to rotation matrices, perform a matrix multiplication, and then transform the angular positions back to angle format. In 2 dimensions, we use eq. After the rotation, we can convert them back to angle format using the 2-argument arc-tangent function: θ = atan2(sinθ,cosθ) (14) Simplified rotations In 2 dimensions, the computations can be simplified since rotations commute. First, we show that chained rotations result in angle addition/subtraction, that is: Q(θi) Q(θj) = cosθi sinθi sinθicosθi cosθj sinθj sinθjcosθj (15) = cosθicosθj sinθisinθj cosθisinθj sinθicosθj sinθicosθj +cosθisinθj sinθisinθj +cosθicosθj (16) = cos(θi +θj) sin(θi +θj) sin(θi +θj) cos(θi +θj) (17) = Q(θi +θj) (18) Following the same approach, we compute the inverse rotation: Q (θi) Q(θj) = Q( θi) Q(θj) = Q(θj θi) (19) Thus, instead of rotating the angular positions (expressed in rotation matrix form) using the rotation matrix Q, in practice we perform the transformation directly to the angles via addition/subtraction, and replace the matrix Qwith the identity matrix I1 1.