Reaction wheels are useful things, typically used by satellites to keep themselves oriented the right way up in space. Turning the reaction wheel creates an equal and opposite torque in the spacecraft ...

This project focuses on the modeling and control of an inverted pendulum system, one of the most classic and fundamental problems in control engineering. The objective is to stabilize the pendulum in ...

The initial goal is to create a basic proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller that can balance the inverted pendulum model in a physics simulation (Phase 1). After the core control ...

Abstract: Wheeled Inverted Pendulum (WIP) systems offer agile mobility but are challenging to control due to their unstable and underactuated dynamics. To address these limitations, we develop a ...

Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive study on the application of advanced control methods to the Double Inverted Pendulum on a Cart (DIPC) system. The focus is on the design and ...

He works in mysterious ways.

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

Aaron Hankin is currently working for Dow Jones MarketWatch. He has 10+ years of professional experience in the financial markets. The U.S. economy seems to be doing fine. Growth, for the most part ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of ...