underactuation

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ actuation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

underactuation

1. Insufficient actuation
   • 2016, Prasanna S. Gandhi, Pablo Borja, Romeo Ortega, “Energy Shaping Control of an Inverted Flexible Pendulum Fixed to a Cart”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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.