Spinning out of control...

To make this more fun, we change the transition equation for theta-dot so that the hovercraft continues spinning even if no input is applied. Unfortunately, no moment of inertia is taken into account, so the model is probably not incredibly accurate. We assume that the center of the robot is the center of mass.

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But, this still isn't too terribly exciting. Where on earth do you have a frictionless environment that would allow you to spin out of control? We need more space for this problem.
Steven Bergom
Last modified: Thu Apr 29 01:15:52 CDT 1999