• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.465-470
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• 2004

In this paper, an open architecture control system for automatic container cranes is investigated. A standard reference model for cranes, which consists of three modules； hardware module, operating system module, and application software module, is proposed. A hybrid control architecture combining deliberative and reactive controls for the autonomous operation of the cranes is proposed. The main contributions of this paper are as follows： First, a new reference platform for the crane control system is proposed. Second, by analyzing the structure of a container crane, implementation strategies for the automatic container crane are described.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1729-1734
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• 2005

The use of gantry crane systems for transporting payload is very common in industrial application. However, moving the payload using the crane is not an easy task especially when strict specifications on the swing angle and on the transfer time need to be satisfied. To overcome this problem, this paper describes development of an intelligent gantry crane system based on the mechatronic design. A lab-scale gantry crane is designed and then its intelligent controllers are developed. Fuzzy logic controllers are adopted, designed and implemented for controlling payload position as well as the swing angle of the gantry crane. The performance of the intelligent gantry crane system is evaluated on a hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) environment. Moreover robustness of the proposed system is also evaluated. The result shows that the intelligent gantry crane system designed based on the mechatronic design approach has better performance compared with the automatic gantry crane system controlled by classical PID controllers. Moreover simulation result shows that the intelligent gantry crane system is more robust to parameter variation than the automatic gantry crane system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.131-139
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• 1995

In this study, small size stacker Crane for automatic ware house and interface circuit is designed and manufactured. IBM-PC is used as a controller. At 50kg$_{f}$ load, optimal motion velocity is 20 mm/min for X and Y axis and 12 mm/min for Z axis. Position fesolution is 0.005 mm and repeatability is .+-. 0.025 mm. Through characteristic experiment, effectiveness of the designed and manufactured stacker crane. PC control program, and design of interface circuit and construction of control system are shown. From these results, the developed stacker crane can be apply to FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System) and FA(Factory Automation) of industrial field.d.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.515-520
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• 2002

Automatic Transfer Crane is needed for automation of container terminal. It requires the control capability of exact position for loading/unloading job in yard. But it has the limitation of improvement because it has the operational environmental and its structural problems. It has the positioning errors caused by the deformation of rail, yawing motion of crane, wear of wheel, sliding motion between wheel and rail and so on. This study shows the calibration method of crane position by using the primitivity sensor and calibrating plate fixed on the ground.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.1079-1082
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• 1996

Automatic control systems for warehouse composed of unmanned crane system and vision system. Unmanned crane system is introduced to reject oscillations of a load suspended from a trolley at a moment of its arrival at its target position. And vision system is applied to find out the coordinates of coils on trucks using image processing.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.428-435
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• 2001

In this paper, the design factors of stacker crane for the automatic warehouse are verified by dynamic simulation process. Simulation model is designed as the form of rigid elements and discrete flexible beam connections. The various result for structural design of stacker crane is produced by dynamic simulation and experiment. For the simulation of structural dynamics, ADAMS which is a software for kinematic & dynamic simulation, is used. In order to verify the analysis method, simulation and experiment result are compared.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2788-2790
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• 2002

In this paper, we designed neural network predictive two degree of freedom PID controller to control sway of crane Crane's trolley arrive minimum oscillation of transfer body and establishment position in minimum time. When various establishment location and surrounding disturbance were approved based on mathematical modeling of crane, controller designed to become effective control location error and oscillation angle of two control variables that simultaneously can predictive control. We wish to develop automatic travel control system through anti-sway skill of crane.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2105-2107
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• 2001

During the operation of crane system in container yard, it is necessary to control the crane trolley position and loop length so that the swing of the hanging container is minimized. Recently an automatic control system with high speed and rapid transportation is required. Therefore, we designed a controller to control the Stack crane system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1688-1692
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• 2003

The automatic Landing system is used for the automatic functions of automatic transfer crane in the automated container terminal. It confirms and adjusts the alignment and pose between spreader and container and accomplishes the automatic loading/unloading job of containers in yard. Specially, it is required in the automated container terminal and is well adapted under the coarse external environments. This system used the laser sensors to recognize the alignment between spreader and container. In this paper the algorithm of recognition of the alignment and pose is presented and the result of its simulation is shown.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.277-281
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• 1996

The roof crane system is used for transporting a variable load to a target position. At this time, the goal of crane system is transporting to a goal position as soon as possible with no rope oscillation. Generally crane is operated by expert's knowledge, but recently automatic control with high speed and rapid transportation is required. In this thesis we developed fuzzy controller of crane which has simplified expert's knowledge base for anti-swing and rapid tansportation to goal position.