“…Furuta pendulum is a well-known academic example that is used as a benchmark for the study of underactuated mechanical systems [33,34]. Recently, in [17], the control design of a PR controller for the stabilization of Furuta pendulum was introduced; however, the effect of the inherent delay, present in the unactuated variable, was not studied. In contrast to the previous work [17], this paper presents a more detailed analysis for the tuning of control gains; also new experiments and graphs are presented, as well as experimental tests of robustness under external disturbances.…”