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Venkatesh Rao
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Old colleague+ex-advisor of mine once wrote a paper on the control of clock escapements. It's a wickedly hard problem. Though it's an older tech than better known "classic" control problems like steam engine governors or thermostats. Still not quite solved
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Limit cycle analysis of the verge and foliot clock escapement using impulsive differential equati...
The verge and foliot escapement mechanism of a mechanical clock is a classical example of a feedback regulator. In this paper we analyse the dynamics of this mechanism to understand its operation f...
7:14 PM · Dec 30, 2018
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock…
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