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Experiments with an Inverted Pendulum Subject to Random Parametric Excitation

Authors: J. L. Bogdanoff, S. J. Citron

Published: 1965 (Journal Paper)

Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.1909711

Summary

Provides experimental verification that an inverted pendulum can be stabilized by second-order stationary random parametric excitation with a discrete-power spectral density, confirming theoretical stability predictions for stochastically driven unstable linear systems.

Abstract

Tags

  • Inverted pendulum

  • Stochastic stability

  • Parametric excitation

  • Random vibration

  • Stochastic control