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Planar Inverted Pendulum Simulation

The planar inverted pendulum has one degree of freedom (angle) and a two dimensional state space (angle and angular velocity). Because if this it is very useful in testing a new analysis technique since proper behavior is easily predicted. It also can be used to develop surrogate data for an anterior-posterior standing postural sway test (using ankle strategy).

inverted pendulum

Matlab Code:

Code is freely available for download: Inverted Pendulum Simulation

Reference:

Tanaka ML, Ross SD, “Separatrices and Basins of Stability from Time Series Data: An Application to Biodynamics”, Nonlinear Dynamics, 58(1), 1-21 (2009)