How to Pump a Swing

DOI10.2307/2687680MaRDI QIDQ3150659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen Wirkus, Andy L. Ruina, Richard Rand

Publication date 17 October 2002

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2687680

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Phase plane analysis, limit cycles for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K05) Forced motions for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K40)

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• Trajectory tracking control of variable length pendulum by partial energy shaping
• On the optimal swinging of a swing by a person standing on it
• Parametric resonance in the Rayleigh-Duffing oscillator with time-delayed feedback
• Adaptive resonance and pumping a swing
• Piecewise Smooth Models of Pumping a Child's Swing
• Integrability in a nonlinear model of swing oscillatory motion
• Amplitude and rotational speed control of variable length pendulum by periodic input
• Swings actuated by the relative motion of the bead: regular and chaotic dynamics
• Optimal strategies for kiiking: active pumping to invert a swing

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