{"id":9325,"date":"2013-02-22T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T20:24:08","slug":"throwing-and-catching-an-inverted-pendulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9325","title":{"rendered":"Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Armed with a good theoretical model and knowledge of its strengths and limitations, the researchers set out on a process of engineering the complete system of balancing, throwing, catching, and re-balancing the pendulum. This involved leveraging the theoretic insights on the problem\u2019s key design parameters to adapt the physical system. For example, they equipped both quadrocopters with a 12cm plate that could hold the pendulum while balancing and developed shock absorbers to add at the pendulum\u2019s tips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/robohub.org\/video-throwing-and-catching-an-inverted-pendulum-with-quadrocopters\/\">Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum \u2013 with quadrocopters | Robohub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the Youtube video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pp89tTDxXuI\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More info at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingmachinearena.org\/\">Flying Machine Arena<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Flying Machine Arena (FMA) is a portable space devoted to autonomous flight. Measuring up to 10 x 10 x 10 meters, it consists of a high-precision motion capture system, a wireless communication network, and custom software executing sophisticated algorithms for estimation and control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with a good theoretical model and knowledge of its strengths and limitations, the researchers set out on a process of engineering the complete system of balancing, throwing, catching, and re-balancing the pendulum. This involved leveraging the theoretic insights on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[770,418,100,180],"class_list":["post-9325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-cool-beans","tag-drones","tag-interesting-research","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9326,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions\/9326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}