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The yaw angle is the angle between a vehicle's heading and a reference heading (normally true or magnetic North
North

North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction:...
). One of the Tait-Bryan angles
Tait-Bryan angles

Yaw, pitch, and roll, also known as Tait?Bryan rotations, named after Peter Guthrie Tait and George Bryan, are a specific sequence of Euler angles very often used in aerospace applications to define the relative orientation of a vehicle....
. In aeronautics, robotics and marine control, it is typically assigned the shorthand notation .






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The yaw angle is the angle between a vehicle's heading and a reference heading (normally true or magnetic North
North

North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction:...
). One of the Tait-Bryan angles
Tait-Bryan angles

Yaw, pitch, and roll, also known as Tait?Bryan rotations, named after Peter Guthrie Tait and George Bryan, are a specific sequence of Euler angles very often used in aerospace applications to define the relative orientation of a vehicle....
. In aeronautics, robotics and marine control, it is typically assigned the shorthand notation . And for Automotive vehicle control