A new algorithm allows this system to guide a rotating pendulum from stable to unstable rotation, detect the boundary between the two, and then hold the pendulum in the unstable state.
Video 2: At the transition from stable to unstable (the "fold"), the pivot oscillation amplitude is very small and changes slowly over time.
http://focus.aps.org/story/v22/st1
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