“…However, it is simpler, and it applies to general planar robots. Compared with the typical approach to balance control in the control theory literature, as exemplified by Grizzle et al (2005), Miyashita et al (2006) and Yonemura and Yamakita (2004), the new controller is a four-term controller using full state feedback, rather than a three-term output-zeroing controller with a one-dimensional zero dynamics. Another difference is that the new controller requires only the numeric values of the coefficients of a general equation of motion, such as can be calculated by standard dynamics software, whereas the typical approach is to start with the symbolic equations of motion of a particular robot.…”