"Self-Stabilizing Cube" / Department of Robotics, Johannes Kepler University Linz
This cube balancing independently on one corner is hard to destabilize due to its built-in gyroscope. The robotic cube offsets external disturbances and changes in its immediate environment on its own. The physics behind this is the principle of the conservation of angular momentum, according to which the angular momentum of an isolated physical system remains constant regardless of the forces and interactions at work among the system’s individual components.
Read more about the Ars Electronica Center’s Creative Robotics exhibition.
Ars Electronica Center Linz
Ars-Electronica-Straße 1
4040 Linz
Austria
credit: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
"Self-Stabilizing Cube" / Department of Robotics, Johannes Kepler University Linz
This cube balancing independently on one corner is hard to destabilize due to its built-in gyroscope. The robotic cube offsets external disturbances and changes in its immediate environment on its own. The physics behind this is the principle of the conservation of angular momentum, according to which the angular momentum of an isolated physical system remains constant regardless of the forces and interactions at work among the system’s individual components.
Read more about the Ars Electronica Center’s Creative Robotics exhibition.
Ars Electronica Center Linz
Ars-Electronica-Straße 1
4040 Linz
Austria
credit: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair