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Balancing an inverted double pendulum

Posted by Chris Anderson on November 26, 2010 at 9:10am

This isn't about UAVs per se, but for students of control theory, the physics of a double pendulum (hinged in the middle) is an example of chaotic motion and notorious hard to model. Well, this guy did it. Keep watching...this is mindblowing.

(via BotJunkie)

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James Cann November 29, 2010 at 4:18pm

Yes, that is impressive, and it just serves to show that eventually, when the humans in the back seat consider it "The New Way It's Alway Been(tm)", autonomous aircraft will be the norm in the air.
Geoffrey L. Barrows November 28, 2010 at 7:20am

Awesome! It reminds me of some work in the 90's by Stanford Prof Bernard Widrow's group. They had worked out a neural network that can back up a truck+trailer, and then they extended it so that an RC truck+trailor could be driven backwards. I saw an actual demo of that in one grad student's basement. Essentially the controller would enforce a turning radius based on the input steering signal. I think for his thesis he was going to next try a double trailer. He got it working a little in simulation but I don't know about in reality.
Bill Noyce November 26, 2010 at 7:38pm

respect
Amarnath A November 26, 2010 at 6:24pm

great video!!!!!
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Sandro Benigno November 26, 2010 at 11:40am

It's a freaking awesome nice research! (and the music too...)
Cliff Dearden November 26, 2010 at 10:43am

Brilliant!!!

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