Synchronous Transition Walking with coffee (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Synchronous Transition Walking with coffee

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A schematic illustration of the cart-pendulum system to simulate human’s handling of a complex object, such as a cup of hot coffee: (a) a conceptual model of a ball rolling inside a circular cup and (b) a nonlinear mechanical model of a pendulum attached to a moving cart, which is mathematically described by a set of differential equations.

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Brent Wallace, Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University

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