Quaternion Multiplication - PX4/Matrix Library

Hello,

I am Evan. I am coding a determination system in C++ for a cube satellite that uses the PX4 Matrix library for matrix and quaternion manipulation.

I am working on cleaning up the determination code. In the matlab version there is a part of code that goes like

dq = 0.5.*(B * q_prev)’; % [1x4] vector

where dq and q_prev are quaternions and B is the 4x4 gyro matrix. Should I declare dq and q_prev as quaternions in the C code or matrices whereas multiplication would be easier and I wouldn’t be multiplying variables of different types. Is there an easy way to do this?

I have it implemented as matrices in C right now as follows.

Matrix<float,1,4> dq;
dq = .5*(B*q_prev).transpose();

Thanks