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underactuation

underactuation noun: insufficient actuation.

Noun

underactuation

  1. Insufficient actuation
    • The control problem in these systems is challenging, especially with gravity coupling and large deformations, because of inherent underactuation and the combination of lumped and distributed parameters of a nonlinear system.2016, Prasanna S. Gandhi, Pablo Borja, Romeo Ortega, “Energy Shaping Control of an Inverted Flexible Pendulum Fixed to a Cart”, in arXiv

Origin of underactuation

From under- + actuation.

Questions about underactuation

What does underactuation mean?
Underactuation means insufficient actuation.
What part of speech is underactuation?
Underactuation is a noun.

Words near underactuation in the dictionary

  1. underacts
  2. underactuate
  3. underactuated
  4. underactuates
  5. underactuating
  6. underactuation
  7. underacylated
  8. underacylation
  9. underadditive
  10. underadditively
  11. underadditivity

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