Underactuation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Insufficient actuation

    "The control problem in these systems is challenging, especially with gravity coupling and large deformations, because of inherent underactuation and the combination of lumped and distributed parameters of a nonlinear system."

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"The control problem in these systems is challenging, especially with gravity coupling and large deformations, because of inherent underactuation and the combination of lumped and distributed parameters of a nonlinear system."

Etymology

From under- + actuation.

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