“…[2,3,12]), he introduced the motor as a six-tuple of scalar quantities and developed a special algebra for these mathematical objects, called the motor calculus. Though his approach is not well known throughout all branches of mechanical engineering, in the field of robotics VON MISES' ideas were rediscovered during the last decades [1,5,10,11,13], since they seem to be well suited to investigate the behaviour of spatial multibody systems. However, in the context of the modelling language Modelica (see e.g.…”