• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.132-138
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• 1997

Six different types of velocity profiles of trolley movement of a container crane are investigated for the minimal sway angle at the target trolley position. Three velocity patterns which include trapezoidal, stepped and notched-type velocity patterns are obtained assuming constant rope length. The notched type velocity pattern is shown to be derived from the time-optimal bang-bang control. The stepped type velocity pattern can be shown to be derived as bang-off bang control as well. Considering the damping effect due to hoist motion a double stage acceleration pattern is also analyzed. The main objective of the paper is to show how much time-reduction can be obtained among several velocity patterns appearing in the literature.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1306-1311
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• 2004

We suggest a new type of swing motion control system for a crane system in which a small auxiliary mass is installed on the spreader. The actuator reacting against the auxiliary mass applies inertial control forces to the spreader of the container crane to reduce the swing motion in the desired manner. In this paper, as the basic and first step, we apply the $H_{\infty}$ control approach to anti-sway control system design problem. And, it will be shown that the proposed control strategy is useful and it can be easily applicable to the real world. So, in this study, we investigate usefulness of the proposed anti-sway system and evaluate system performance through simulation and experimental studies.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권1호통권94호
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• pp.34-41
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• 1999

This paper presents a HGA-based(hybrid genetic algorithm) optimal control strategy to control of the swing motion and the transfer of the overhead crane. The objective is to achieve the regulation of the fast swing motion or fast position control. The controller is based on the state feedback. The HGA-based optimal algorithm is applied to find optimal gains of the controller. Computer simulation and experiments were performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제33권7호
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• pp.1060-1067
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• 2009

The authors have proposed a linear motor driven container crane system, in which the linear motor to drive trolley chassis is also used to control swaying motion of a hanging container. To utilize the proposed system, it is needed to develop a power saving control system for the linear drive system. In this paper, an integrated control system to minimize required electric power to drive a trolley chassis with the suppressed swaying motion of a hanged container, is proposed. The validity of the proposed control system is investigated by the simulation using Simulink.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.977-979
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• 1996

This paper presents an algorithm to control the undesirable sway of a suspended load in the crane system that has a trade-off between positioning the load and suppressing the sway of the load. The aim is to transport the load to a specified place with small sway angle as quickly as possible. Dynamic model is based on a simple pendulum driven by a velocity drive that is mostly used for actuating a trolley in industry. Proposed algorithm is composed of two parts : one is a off-line optimal trajectory generator, the other on-line tracking control. The former produces optimal trajectories minimizing energy under the speed constraint of velocity drive. The latter controls outputs to track the generated trajectories. Digital simulations and experiments are performed on a pilot crane to demonstrate the performance of the proposed control algorithm.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.537-542
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• 2002

최근에, 자동화 크레인 제어 시스템은 빠른 속도와 신속한 수송이 요구되어 지고 있다. 따라서, 컨테이너가 초기좌표에서 최종좌표로 이동될 때 컨테이너 경로는 최소시간에 흔들림 없이 설계되어야 한다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 최종 좌표까지 이동에서 충돌을 피하기 위하여 충돌방지 경로를 계산하였다. 그리고, 정확한 주행 제어를 위해서 신경회로망 예측 PID제어기를 구성하였다. 제안된 예측제어 시스템은 PID 파라미터를 생산하기 위하여 신경회로망 예측기, PID 제어기 그리고 신경회로망 자기 동조기로 구성하였다 크레인 시스템을 통한 시뮬레이션 분석에서 다른 기존의 제어기들 보다 우수한 제어 수행을 증명하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.385-390
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• 2015

Quay cranes are considered core equipment for container terminal operation. However, unmanned operation systems have not as yet been announced due to the technological difficulties of implementation. In this paper, we developed a wireless controller to control a quay crane simulator remotely and conducted its performance test, a first step toward unmanned operation of quay cranes. The communication delay of a developed wireless controller was about 9.4ms on average while that of existing wired controllers was about 5.6ms. The same functions were implemented and tested on a smart phone where the average communication delay was 7.3ms. In addition, to apply the developed system into a real environment, we proposed a network architecture based on IEEE 802.11ac and carried out its performance evaluation. When the distance between two nodes was 50m apart, the throughputs of the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) were 57Mbps and 189Mbps, respectively. The communication delay of the control data was 9.1ms through the TCP channel. These results reveal the proper working of remote quay crane operation if we adopt the IEEE 802.11ac network.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2003

천정크레인 설비의 자동화에 사용될 수 있는 반진동 제어알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안하는 제어알고리즘은 1) 복잡한 비선형계통 제어에 유용한 것으로 알려진 보상 FLC를 갖는 FCL, 2) 화물의 진동을 적게 하도록 가속도, 속도, 위치 기준 궤적을 발생하는 기준패턴발생기, 3) 속도, 위치 오차를 궤환하는 가속도 궤환제어기로 구성된다. 특히, 제안한 알고리즘은 화물의 진동각 정보를 제어에 활용하지 않으므로 고가의 진동각 센서가 필요 없다는 특징을 갖는다. 시뮬레이션에 의한 연구와 모형 크레인에 대한 실험 연구에 의해 제안하는 알고리즘의 유용성을 보인다.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.346-349
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• 2003

For a traveling crane, various control methods such as neural network predictive control and TDOFPID(Two Degree of Freedom Proportional Integral Derivative) are studied. So in this paper, we proposed improved navigation method to reduce transfer time and sway with anti-collision path for avoiding collision in its movement to the finial coordinate. And we constructed the NNPPID(Neural Network Predictive PID) controller to control the precise move and speedy navigation. The proposed predictive control system is composed of the neural network predictor, TDOFPID controller, and neural network self-tuner. We analyzed ASC(Automated Stacking Crane) system and showed some computer simulations to prove excellence of the proposed controller than other conventional controllers.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.64-71
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• 2000

Yard cranes are very useful equipments for handling of heavy containers. But rope-driven yard cranes must have a little of sway and skew motion because ropes are passive mechanical device. So many researches have been concentrated on anti-sway algorithm controlling trolley speed. These approaches require sway angle. But it is very difficult to know sway angle and its derivative. Therefore control algorithm of trolley speed is not practical in general. On the contrary, control strategy using auxiliary rope is very useful to sway control of yard crane because rope length is shorter than quay-side container cranes. In this paper, we derive equations of motion of trolley system which have anti-sway controller to use auxiliary rope. And we propose the control strategy and analyse the behavior of the proposed system.