Suppose that you want to use MAMBO to visualize the motion of a bicycle wheel that is rolling without slipping on a horizontal plane.
Introduce a world observer, relative to which the horizontal plane is stationary. Suppose that the reference point of the world observer coincides with some point on the surface of the horizontal plane. Suppose that the 3-vector of the reference triad of the world observer is perpendicular to the horizontal plane.
Introduce a body observer, relative to which the wheel is stationary. Suppose that the reference point of the body observer coincides with the center of the wheel. Suppose that the 3-vector of the reference triad of the body observer is parallel to the symmetry axis of the wheel.
In the MAMBO toolbox, type
>DeclareObservers(W,B);
>DeclarePoints(W,B);
>DeclareTriads(w,b);
>DefineObservers([W,W,w],[B,B,b]);
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