This paper concerns active vibration damping of a frictionless physical inverted pendulum with a radially moving mass. The motion of the inverted pendulum is restricted to an admissible set. The proposed Proportional Derivative linear controller damps the inverted pendulum (which is anchored by a torsion spring to keep it in a stable upright position), excerting a force on the radially moving m...

The Lagrange theory of particle motion in the noninertial systems is applied to the Foucault pendulum, isosceles triangle pendulum and the general triangle pendulum swinging on the rotating Earth. As an analogue, planet orbiting in the rotating galaxy is considered as the the giant galactical gyroscope. The Lorentz equation and the Bargmann-MichelTelegdi equations are generalized for the rotati...

To use numerical investigation of functional differential equations it is very important to know if difference analogues of the considered differential equations have the reliability to preserve some general properties of these equations, in particular, property of stability. This problem is considered here by investigation of a difference analogue of the linear mathematical inverted pendulum. ...

The history of psychiatry is often portrayed through the metaphor of a pendulum, the profession swinging back and forth between a concern with psyche and soma. Recent work critiquing the pendulum metaphor, however, suggests that it does not account for the complexity of psychiatry. This article explores the metaphor through an analysis of the changing aetiological accounts of personality disord...

In this note, property of dichotomy and Lagrange stability of the uncertain pendulum-like systems with additional, multiplicative and H∞ uncertainty are considered, respectively. By using some results of H∞ theory the property of dichotomy and Lagrange stability of uncertain pendulum-like systems with multiple equilibria are transformed into L∞ or H∞ norm condition of some transfer functions. T...

This paper deals with modelling, identification and simulation of the inverted pendulum PS600. This system is unstable and nonlinear with one input – voltage of a DC motor which can change position of the cart and two outputs – cart position and angle of the pendulum rod. First, a mathematical model of the inverted pendulum is derived, followed by identification of its unknown parameters. Then,...

Melnikov’s method is applied to the planar double pendulum proving it to be a chaotic system. The parameter space of the double pendulum is discussed, and the integrable cases are identified. In the neighborhood of the integrable case of two uncoupled pendulums Melnikov’s integral is evaluated using residue calculus. In the two limiting cases of one pendulum becoming a rotator or an oscillator,...

We study the collective dynamics of a driven two-mode Bose-Hubbard model in the Josephson interaction regime. The classical phase space is mixed, with chaotic and regular components, which determine the dynamical nature of the fringe visibility. For a weak off-resonant drive, where the chaotic component is small, the many-body dynamics corresponds to that of a Kapitza pendulum, with the relativ...

We describe a new class of propagation-invariant light beams with Fourier transform given by an eigenfunction of the quantum mechanical pendulum. These beams, whose spectra (restricted to a circle) are doubly periodic Mathieu functions in azimuth, depend on a field strength parameter. When the parameter is zero, pendulum beams are Bessel beams, and as the parameter approaches infinity, they res...