Shipboard cranes are extensively utilized in numerous fields such as cargo transferring and
offshore engineering. The control of shipboard cranes, especially the antiswing control of …

This paper reports our study on adaptive tracking control for a mobile-wheeled inverted
pendulum with periodic disturbances and parametric uncertainties. With an appropriate …

In this paper, an adaptive sliding-mode control (ASMC) for offshore container cranes that
load/unload containers from a mega container ship to a smaller vessel is investigated. To …

As a typical underactuated mechanical system, offshore ship-mounted cranes are widely
used to carry out the tasks of transferring cargos from one ship to another in the marine …

To improve the transient control performance and to guarantee the satisfactory robustness
simultaneously, in this paper, a disturbance employment-based sliding mode control …

When lifting and transporting large payloads in the marine environment, the dual ship-
mounted crane system plays a very important role for cargos transportation, which exhibits …

As the volume and the mass of the payload increases, it is often necessary to use two ship-
mounted cranes to jointly transport huge payloads under marine environment. Compared …

As typical mechanical transportation equipment, cooperative dual ship-mounted cranes are
widely used to transport large goods or containers in the marine environment. However, the …

We propose, in this paper, an observer-based nonlinear feedback controller for four degrees
of freedom (4-DOF) offshore ship-mounted tower cranes, which includes a robust-type term …

A crane control system is proposed where the crane payload follows a desired position
trajectory with ultimately bounded pendulum motion. The proposed control system includes …