Inertia wheel pendulum

An inertia wheel pendulum is a pendulum with an inertia wheel attached. It can be used as a pedagogical problem in control theory. This type of pendulum is often confused with the gyroscopic effect, which has completely different physical nature.

• Inverted pendulum
• Robotic unicycle
• Spinning top

• Mark W. Spong, Peter Corke, Rogelio Lozano. Nonlinear Control of the Gyroscopic Pendulum.

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