cartpole

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noun

An inverted pendulum whose pivot point can be moved along a track to maintain balance

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Meanings

nouncartpole (plural cartpoles)

plural cartpoles

  1. An inverted pendulum whose pivot point can be moved along a track to maintain balance

    Using the same learning algorithm, network architecture and hyper-parameters, our algorithm robustly solves more than 20 simulated physics tasks, including classic problems such as cartpole swing-up, dexterous manipulation, legged locomotion and car driving.

    2015, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daan Wierstra, “Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning”, in arXiv

Origin

From cart + pole, representing the pendulum as an upright pole balancing on top of a moving cart.

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