New Hobbyist member seeking help with some math/calculus

[PickyBiker]

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Hello everyone,

I am a 72 year old retired IT worker and I am interested in all things Arduino and a few things PI as hobbies. Although I have completed several dozen Arduino projects and a couple Raspberry PI projects, the latest project has me stumped because the physical motion math of an inverted pendulum is pretty far above my ability to code.

I joined this forum in the hope that someone can help me convert some inverted pendulum motion formulas to C code program language.

 

[anorlunda]

Welcome to PF.

The proper forum for that would be
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/programming-and-computer-science.165/

When you post your question, be sure to mention what you have read so far. Include links.

 

[sysprog]

Well, an inverted pendulum on Earth is still referential to non-inverted Earth gravity, right? So maybe take the first derivative of position with respect to time (that's velocity); then take the second derivatives with regard to all of the time-dependent vectors, (accelerations), then the 3rd derivative (jerk); then just for fun take the 4th derivative (jounce) and you're good to go -- the inverted pendulum will still be swinging along with velocity,

 

[PickyBiker]

Welcome to PF.

The proper forum for that would be
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/programming-and-computer-science.165/

When you post your question, be sure to mention what you have read so far. Include links.

Thank you.
I was wondering where that should go. I will definitely show the source documents that are difficult for me.