• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.582-590
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• 2007

Nonlinear adaptive control of overhead cranes is investigated for anti-sway trajectory tracking with high-speed hoisting motion. The sway dynamics of two dimensional underactuated overhead cranes is heavily coupled with the trolley acceleration, hoisting rope length, and the hoisting velocity which is an obstacle in the design of decoupling control based anti-sway trajectory tracking control law To cope with this obstacle. we propose a fuzzy nonlinear adaptive anti-sway trajectory tracking control law guaranteeing the uniform ultimate boundedness of the sway dynamics even in the presence of uncertainties in such a way that it cancels the effect of the trolley acceleration and hoisting velocity on the sway dynamics. In particular. system uncertainties, including system parameter uncertainty unmodelled dynamics, and external disturbances, are compensated in an adaptive manner by utilizing fuzzy uncertainty observers. Accordingly, the ultimate bound of the tracking errors and the sway angle decrease to zero when the fuzzy approximation errors decrease to zero. Finally, numerical simulations are performed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• ICROS
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.34-40
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• 2007

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1683-1693
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• 1997

In this paper, a new nonlinear dynamic model is derived for a 2-dimensional overhead crane based on a new definition of 2-degree-of-freedom swing angle, and a new anti-swing control law is proposed for the crane. The dynamic model and control law take simultaneous travel and traverse motions of the crane into consideration. The model is first linearized for small motions of the crane load about the vertical stable equilibrium. Then the model becomes decoupled and symmetric with respect to the travel and traverse axes of the crane. From this result, a decoupled anti-swing control law is proposed based on the linearized model via the loop shaping and root locus methods. This decoupled method guarantees not only fast damping of load-swing but also zero steady state position error with optimal transient response for the 2-dimensional motion of the crane. Finally, the proposed control method is evaluated by controlling the simultaneous travel and traverse motions of a 2-dimensional prototype overhead crane. The effectiveness of the proposed control method is then proven by the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1634-1635
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• 2007

본 논문은 갠트리 크레인의 시뮬레이터를 제작하여 적응형 흔들림 제어기를 설계한다. 흔들림 감지는 디지털 카메라 센서를 이용하였으며 모델기반 적응제어를 이용하여 제어규칙을 산출한다. 제어규칙은 리아푸노브 안정성이론을 적용하였으며 정의된 리아푸노브 함수의 미분식이 음수를 갖기 위한 크레인의 적응형 제어입력을 계산한다. 제안한 제어기의 성능을 검토하기 위하여 실시간 제어실험을 실시하였으며 이송체의 무게 변화에 대한 적응성을 검토한다. 또한 기존의 PI 제어기도 함께 실험하여 성능의 비교 검토한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1914-1915
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• 2011

본 논문은 천정형 크레인의 파라미터 추정과 Fuzzy LMI 제어기법을 이용한 흔들림 억제 제어를 제안한다. 실제 크레인을 제어함에 있어서 크레인의 동적모델링 이외에도 미지의 물리적 매개변수 값을 규정하는 것은 중요한 요소이다. 이러한 점을 고려하여 크레인의 물리적 매개변수를 최소자승추정 방법을 통해 추정하여 크레인 제어의 성능향상을 제공한다. 또한 Fuzzy LMI 제어기법을 적용하여 천정형 크레인의 이동 중 발생하는 흔들림을 제어한다.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.74-81
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• 2003

An LQ controller design method is proposed for effective anti-sway control of boom type crane in this paper. It is important for high productivity that the sway of a load is controlled as fast as possible when the trolley arrives to the destination with maximum velocity. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed LQ controller. simulations and experiments using the boom type crane as experimental device is carried out. Tracking performance for a step type reference and robustness for the change of working environment such as the change of load weight and parameters produced by a wire rope and disturbance by the wind arc proved by the experiment. It will be examined that boom type crane can be applied to industrial fields through experiment in this paper.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.51-59
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• 2003

The recent amount of container freight continuously has been increased, but the low efficiency of container crane causes jamming frequently in transportation and cargo handling at port. It is required that the working velocity and safety are improved by control of moving the trolley as quick as possible without large overshoot and any residual swing motion of container at the destination. In this paper, a LQ Fuzzy controller for a container crane is proposed to accomplish an optimal design of improved control system for minimizing the swing motion at destination. In this scheme a mathematical model for the system is obtained in state space form. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed controller is verified through computer simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.53-64
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• 2001

The gain-scheduling control technique is vary useful in the control problem incorporating time varying parameters which can be measured in real time. Based on these facts, in this paper the sway control problem of the pendulum motion of a container hanging on the trolly, which transports containers from a container ship to trucks, is considered. In the container crane control problem, suppressing the residual swing motion of the container at the end of acceleration, deceleration or the case of that the unexpected disturbance input exists is main issue. For this problem, in general, the trolley motion control strategy is introduced and applied. But, in this paper, we introduce and synthesize a new type of swing motion control system. In this control system, a small auxiliary mass is installed on the spreader. And the actuator reacts against the auxiliary mass, applying inertial control forces to the container to reduce the swing motion in the desired manner. In this paper, we assume that an plant parameter is varying and apply the gain-scheduling control technique design the anti-swing motion control system for the controlled plant. In this control system, the controller dynamics are adjusted in real-time according to time-varying plant parameters. And the simulation result shows that the proposed control strategy is shown to be useful to the case of time-varying system and, robust to disturbances like winds and initial sway motion.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.297-304
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• 1997

This paper presents a systematic design method of an anti-swing control law for overhead cranes. A velocity servo system for the trolley of a crane is designed based on the dynamics of the trolley and its load. The velocity servo system compensates for the effects of load swing on the trolley dynamics so that the velocity servo is independent of load swing. The velocity servo system is used for the design of a position servo system for the trolley via the loop shaping method. The position servo system and the swing dynamics of the load are then used to design an angle control system for load swing based on the root locus method. The combined position servo and the angle control systems constitute the overall control system. In the presence of low frequency disturbances, the proposed control law guarantees accurate position control for the trolley and fast damping for load swing. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed control law is independent of the mass of the load. Experimental results on a prototype crane show the effectiveness of the proposed anti-swing control law.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.467-468
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• 2010