Meanings
plural cartpoles
- 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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cartpole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cartpole
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