Tower cranes play a vital role in modern construction for transporting material, yet the
persisting issue of crane-related accidents, often attributable to human error, underscores …

Robotic and mechatronic systems, autonomous vehicles, electric power systems and smart
grids, as well as manufacturing and industrial production systems can exhibit complex …

To transfer heavy payloads at construction sites, tower cranes are essential. However, tower
cranes are a complex underactuated system due to the strong coupling between the jib …

In this article, we design a novel saturated proportional-derivative (PD) with sliding-mode
control (SMC) method or saturated PD-SMC in short for 4-DOF tower crane systems under …

Double-pendulum dynamics increase the difficulty of the control for the tower cranes.
Especially, it would be a greater challenge with obstacle avoidance while satisfying full …

Purpose Double-pendulum overhead cranes find use in industry, construction works, and in
supply-chain operations. Control and stabilization of the overhead crane and double …

Although crane control has been a research field for decades, active sway damping control
for tower cranes is not yet established in industry. For different reasons, the concepts (mainly …

In most working scenarios of tower cranes, the load swings around the hooks, resulting in a
double-pendulum effect. This makes the tower crane more underactuated and nonlinear …

The existing crane control methods mainly aim at suppressing the oscillation of the payloads
during the transportation process. However, during the vertical lift-up/lay-down process of …

Considering the increasing popularity of tower cranes in buildings, there is gradually more
research on them. However, because tower cranes are underactuated and highly complex …