Selected Animations

Cart-and-Pendulum, Fixed-Base Pendulum, and Rotary Pendulum

• Animated GIF created from the inverted pendulum and cart environment. The animation shows the inverted pendulum's response, starting with zero initial conditions, to one period of a square wave cart position reference command. (File Size : 762KB)
• Cart and Pendulum: Sinusoidal command following (File Size : 1.65 MB)
• Cart and Pendulum: Effects of force saturation (File Size : 3.0 MB)
• Fixed Base Pendulum: Natural Response, with and without friction (File Size : 1.6 MB)
• Fixed Base Pendulum: Natural Response, nonlinear and linear model (File Size : 1.1 MB)
• Fixed Base Pendulum: Sinusoidal command following (File Size : 3.8 MB)
• Fixed Base Pendulum: Effects of plant uncertainty - mass perturbation (File Size : 3.9 MB)
• Fixed Base Pendulum: Effects of a RHP pole-zero cancellation (File Size : 1.2 MB)
• Rotary Pendulum: Sinusoidal command following (File Size : 2.1 MB)

  
  Helicopter

• Helicopter: Open-loop backflapping mode (File Size : 1.4 MB)
• Helicopter: Closed loop command following (File Size : 2.9 MB)
• Helicopter: Multiple plotting (File Size : 3.5 MB)
• Helicopter: Pitch indicators (File Size : 8.3 MB)
• Helicopter: Simultaneous Multiple Animation Capability (SMAC) (File Size : 4.8 MB)
• Helicopter: Open-loop joystick control (File Size : 6.8 MB)
• Helicopter: Proportional gain root-locus via MATLAB (File Size : 1.1 MB)

  
  Seesaw Pendulum

• See-saw Pendulum: Menu structure (File Size : 1.0 MB)
• See-saw Pendulum: Sinusoidal command following (File Size : 1.2 MB)
• See-saw Pendulum: Balanced natural mode and effect of numerical inaccuracies (File Size : 2.9 MB)

  
  Flexible Inverted Pendulum

• Flexible Inverted Pendulum: Constant command following (File Size : 1.4 MB)
• Flexible Inverted Pendulum: Sinusoidal command following (File Size : 2.5 MB)
• Flexible Inverted Pendulum: Stable decaying natural mode (File Size : 2.1 MB)
• Flexible Inverted Pendulum: Stable sinusoidal mode (File Size : 1.7 MB)

  
  Airplane

• Aircraft: Command Following (File Size : 4.8 MB)
• Aircraft: Lateral Dutch Roll mode (File Size : 1.0 MB)
• Aircraft: Lateral Roll Subsidence (File Size : 0.4 MB)
• Aircraft: Longitudinal Phugoid Mode (File Size : 2.9 MB)
• Aircraft: Longitudinal short period mode (File Size : 0.6 MB)

  
  Simplified Airplane

• Simplified Aircraft: Stable system (File Size : 0.6 MB)
• Simplified Aircraft: Unstable system (File Size : 0.6 MB)

  
  Air-Vehicle

• Air-Vehicle: Mesh selection (File Size : 0.8 MB)

  
  Submarine

• Submarine: Command Following (File Size: MB)