Geometry, mechanics, and control in action for the falling cat / Toshihiro Iwai.

The falling cat is an interesting theme to pursue, in which geometry, mechanics, and control are in action together. As is well known, cats can almost always land on their feet when tossed into the air in an upside-down attitude. If cats are not given a non-vanishing angular momentum at an initial i...

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Main Author: Iwai, Toshihiro (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Series:Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; 2289.
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