InvPendFLSFCombo.avi, 1.41MB, 0:15min Inverse pendulum swung up by a fuzzy logic controller and after reaching a specific angle balanced by a state feedback controller. |
InvPendDisturbedSF.avi, 3.00MB, 0:30min Inverse pendulum disturbed by a random force on the pendulum and controlled by a state feedback controller. The movie is running at half speed. |
InvPendPassive.avi, 839KB, 0:08min Uncontrolled inverse pendulum starting with a very slow velocity of pendulum and slider. |
BallKicker9.avi, 1.57MB, 0:11min Construction from BallKicker5 but the balancing ball has been replaced by an idler gear. The camera has been moved while recording the movie and it's running with lower speed. |
BallKicker8.avi, 880KB, 0:39min Two robots of the kind of BallKicker5 but with a communication module connected to each other. After the robots have "diced" who will start "catching" the ball the winner will follow it until it has touched it. Than it will notify th eother robot to do the same and stop moving - only adapting the orientation - until it is notified itself. |
BallKicker5.avi, 726KB, 0:48min Simple construction of a mobile robot with wheels at the side and a ball to keep balance. It continously tries to reach the current position of the ball. |
Bowling.avi, 171KB, 0:05min A ball falling on a ramp and hitting a stack of cuboids. |
There are additional animations of robots and the inverse pendulum on my homepage.