Stabilized Inverted Pendulum Animation 4

3,638 views · Published 17 January 2011 · 0:19 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: Wolfram · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Can you balance a ruler upright on the palm of your hand? This challenge is analogous to a classic problem in the field of control systems design: stabilizing an upside-down ("inverted") pendulum.  

Andrew Moylan of Wolfram Research's Technical Communication & Strategy group explores this problem in a post on the Wolfram Blog. This video shows one of the Mathematica animations generated during his experiment.

For more information, please read his post on Wolfram Blog:
http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/01/19/stabilized-inverted-pendulum/

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