Russ Tedrake. Underactuated Robotics: Learning, Planning, and Control for Efficient and Agile Machines. Working Draft of Course Notes for MIT 6.832 (Chapter 3).
The animation can be found here:
http://tomdyn.com/examples/acrobot.avi
Problem type appears to be: qpcon Starting numeric solver ===== * * * =================================================================== * * * TOMLAB - Tomlab Optimization Inc. Development license 999001. Valid to 2011-02-05 ===================================================================================== Problem: --- 1: Acrobot f_k 15.819743676706992000 sum(|constr|) 0.000005838568196298 f(x_k) + sum(|constr|) 15.819749515275188000 f(x_0) 0.000000000000000000 Solver: snopt. EXIT=0. INFORM=1. SNOPT 7.2-5 NLP code Optimality conditions satisfied FuncEv 1 ConstrEv 303 ConJacEv 303 Iter 159 MinorIter 1149 CPU time: 14.656250 sec. Elapsed time: 15.360000 sec.