Nonlinear antiswing control for crane systems with double-pendulum swing effects and uncertain parameters: Design and experiments

N Sun, Y Wu, Y Fang, H Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In practical applications, industrial cranes may exhibit double-pendulum swing effects, due
to many factors, such as large payload scales and non-negligible hook masses. Currently …

A new disturbance attenuation control scheme for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles

B Xiao, S Yin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses a difficult problem of high-accuracy control for quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) subject to external disturbance force and unknown disturbance …

Nonlinear hierarchical control for unmanned quadrotor transportation systems

X Liang, Y Fang, N Sun, H Lin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An unmanned quadrotor presents excellent mobility to fly freely in complex environments,
which makes it an ideal choice for aerial transferring tasks. During the transferring process, it …

An energy-optimal solution for transportation control of cranes with double pendulum dynamics: Design and experiments

N Sun, Y Wu, H Chen, Y Fang - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Underactuated cranes play an important role in modern industry. Specifically, in most
situations of practical applications, crane systems exhibit significant double pendulum …

Nonlinear stabilizing control for ship-mounted cranes with ship roll and heave movements: design, analysis, and experiments

N Sun, Y Fang, H Chen, Y Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presently, ship-mounted cranes are playing more and more important roles in modern
ocean transportation and logistics. Different from traditional land-fixed crane systems, ship …

Adaptive sliding-mode control of an offshore container crane with unknown disturbances

GH Kim, KS Hong - IEEE/ASME Transactions On Mechatronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

An adaptive tracking control method with swing suppression for 4-DOF tower crane systems

H Chen, Y Fang, N Sun - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
As an efficient transportation tool, a tower crane is widely used in construction sites. To
improve the working efficiency, some automatic control methods have been proposed for …

[图书][B] Control and estimation of dynamical nonlinear and partial differential equation systems: Theory and Applications

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

Adaptive anti-swing and positioning control for 4-DOF rotary cranes subject to uncertain/unknown parameters with hardware experiments

N Sun, T Yang, H Chen, Y Fang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Among various large-scale mechanical equipments, a rotary crane is one of the most
practical hoisting machineries utilized in factories and docks. However, the inaccurate …

A novel energy-coupling-based hierarchical control approach for unmanned quadrotor transportation systems

X Liang, Y Fang, N Sun, H Lin - IEEE/ASME Transactions On …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cable-suspended transportation is an important way of transferring goods and materials by
rotorcraft in complex and hazardous environments, where external disturbances, system …