Devilsticks in Science

Well jugglers been researching Devilsticks for quite some time but it
turns out that there are actually scientists researching Devilsticks
too.

i guess you´ve seen some of the juggling robots
that have been developed and it looks like someone in Tokio is working
on Devilsticks too. It seems to be a pretty early stage and the motion
shown in the videos is far away from an robot doing a real Devilstick
Propeller but still im excited


http://www.sc.ctrl.titech.ac.jp/SCHP/research/index.php?lang=e&page=DevilStick


then theres this paper called: "real time learning with locally weighted statistical learning" featuring a robot who, if i understand everything right" was able to learn a idle/tictoc and maintain it for several hundred tics.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/svijayak/publications/schaal-ICRA2000.pdf

here is a longer article which features a picture of the Robot

http://wwwiaim.ira.uka.de/users/rogalla/WebOrdnerMaterial/JugleLearning.pdf


the other thing i found is a puplication called "Feedback control of enduring rotary motion of devil stick" it´s super sciency and focussing on the propeller instead of the idle/tictoc

you can find and read the whole thing here

http://www.researchgate.net/publicatio/4057544_Feedback_control_of_enduring_rotary_motion_of_devil_stick


researching a bit more i remembered two videos featuring science and devilsticks

first we have a Devilstick Drop Test, which basicly tells you when you´ve
dropped which i believe to be pretty useless but hey... science

then we have a professor doing an awesome job using a flowerstick to explain the center of gravity to his students