Four-bar Applet: Is wide stance more stable?
Companion material for a manuscript by Bingham, Choi and Ting submitted to the Journal of Neurophysiology 2011.
The four-bar linkage is tuned with kp=600 and kv=100 to be critically stable at a stance ratio of 1.0. Does increasing the stance ratio to 1.5 stabilize the system? How about decreasing the stance ratio to 0.7?
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