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Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.
Fully compressed I believe the opposite poles fields begin to attract each other, counteracting the matching poles repelling one another, and explaining the alternating pull force.
TL;DR Yes but not very well. A spring made from magnets doesn't have a close to linear spring rate like a traditional coil spring does.
Coil spring + magnets = success?
Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.
TL;DR Yes but not very well. A spring made from magnets doesn't have a close to linear spring rate like a traditional coil spring does.
Fully compressed I believe the opposite poles fields begin to attract each other, counteracting the matching poles repelling one another, and explaining the alternating pull force.
This is easily solved by including a minimal height spacer between the two magnets to prevent them from getting too close.
Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.
TL;DR Yes but not very well. A spring made from magnets doesn't have a close to linear spring rate like a traditional coil spring does.
But is it linear, from the data? They had two datapoints and projected from that sparse data a regression line.