A Self-Stabilized Inverted Pendulum Made of Optically Responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers

The inverted pendulum system has great potential for various engineering applications, and its stabilization is challenging because of its unstable characteristic. The well-known Kapitza’s pendulum adopts the parametrically excited oscillation to stabilize itself, which generally requires a complex...

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Main Authors: Quanbao Cheng, Lin Zhou, Kai Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.808262/full