Triple Pendulum on a Cart
Overview
A TU Wien control-systems demo in which a triple pendulum on a cart is swung up and stabilized using constrained feedforward plus optimal feedback control. It accompanies a 2013 Automatica paper.
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HN commenters cite it as an example of a hard, chaotic control problem that fast feedback and good control design can solve.
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Video by Tobias Glück, played through YouTube.
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