“…Several kinds of flexibilities, e.g., transversal deflection (see Fig. 2(c)) and length extension [194,128] can be taken into account in this category, leading to several different equations depending on the flexibility types. The models in this category lead to PDE-ODEs, e.g., linear wave equation [64,118,69,67] or semilinear wave equation [140], caused by the cart and cable dynamics, that need to be spatially discretized with finite-element methods (FEM) for simulation and for control application (for instance see [79]) and yield finite-dimensional Lagrange systems based on FEM approximations of the wave equation [71], and Rayleigh-Ritz discretization [62].…”