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Method for Measuring Absolute Position of a Yard Crane for Port Automation  

전태원 (울산대 전기전자정보시스템공학)
유우종 (울산대 전기공학과 대학원)
이홍희 (울산대 전기전자정보시스템공학)
김흥근 (경북대 전자전기공학부)
노의철 (부경대 전기제어계측공학부)
Publication Information
The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics / v.9, no.2, 2004 , pp. 163-170 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since 1960s, a container shipping volume has increased dramatically and continuous on a trend of rapid growth, and so the number of containers handled at the port increases. The position measurement of the yard crane is very important for improving the operating efficiency of the port. This paper describes the method to measure the absolute position of yard crane accurately and rapidly, using both the output pulse of an encoder and infrared sensors. The crane position is calculated by counting the output pulse of an incremental encoder, which is mounted on the wheel in the crane. By the way, the wheel slippage on rail may cause some errors in the crane position information obtained from encoder pulse, and the infrared sensor is used to compensate for errors in the crane position information. The performance of proposed method is verified on experimental results with the simulator of yard crane, the size of which is about 1/10 with the real crane.
Keywords
Yard crane; Linear encoder; Infrared diode; Position measurement; Lon-works network;
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