Once you step into the world of controls, you quickly realize that controlling even simple systems isn’t as easy as applying voltage to a servo. Before you start working on your own bipedal robot or ...

A simple pendulum has two equilibrium points: hanging in the "down" position and perfectly inverted in the "up" position. While the "down" position is a stable equilibrium, the inverted position is ...

Control process is a field of science and engineering that explores how both natural and artificial systems behave and to subvert particular nonlinear parameters to enable the system to have a ...

Underactuated mechanical systems arise naturally in many engineering applications due to design constraints, energy efficiency requirements, or actuator limitations. Typical examples include robotic ...

Researchers have demonstrated a way to maintain an unstable quantum system by applying bursts of microwave radiation. The technique is comparable to methods used for controlling an inverted pendulum ...