cartpole

English

Etymology

From cart +‎ pole, representing the pendulum as an upright pole balancing on top of a moving cart.

Noun

cartpole (plural cartpoles)

1. An inverted pendulum whose pivot point can be moved along a track to maintain balance
   • 2015, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daan Wierstra, “Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Using the same learning algorithm, network architecture and hyper-parameters, our algorithm robustly solves more than 20 simulated physics tasks, including classic problems such as cartpole swing-up, dexterous manipulation, legged locomotion and car driving.

Usage notes

Usually used attributively, e.g. in reference to a cartpole system or the cartpole problem.

Anagrams

• pectoral