Control strategies for crane systems: A comprehensive review

L Ramli, Z Mohamed, AM Abdullahi, HI Jaafar… - … Systems and Signal …, 2017 - Elsevier
Crane systems are tremendously utilised in numerous heavy load transportation industries,
and therefore, the control of crane systems is a well-established research field. As the last …

Technologies, levels and directions of crane-lift automation in construction

A Zhu, Z Zhang, W Pan - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Crane-lift operations are critical in construction. With the advancement of information and
communications technologies, crane-lift automation (CLA) has been increasingly explored …

Neural network-based adaptive antiswing control of an underactuated ship-mounted crane with roll motions and input dead zones

T Yang, N Sun, H Chen, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a type of indispensable oceanic transportation tools, ship-mounted crane systems are
widely employed to transport cargoes and containers on vessels due to their extraordinary …

Tensor product‐based model transformation approach to tower crane systems modeling

EL Hedrea, RE Precup, RC Roman… - Asian Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the application of the tensor product (TP)‐based model transformation
approach to produce Tower CRrane (TCR) systems models. The modeling approach starts …

Amplitude-saturated nonlinear output feedback antiswing control for underactuated cranes with double-pendulum cargo dynamics

N Sun, Y Fang, H Chen, B Lu - IEEE transactions on Industrial …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When modeling cranes, the hook and the suspended cargo are usually regarded roughly as
one mass point for simplicity, ie, the cargo swing is modeled as that of a single pendulum …

Observer-based nonlinear control for tower cranes suffering from uncertain friction and actuator constraints with experimental verification

T Yang, N Sun, H Chen, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tower cranes are a class of important and useful tools for the transportation of large
cargoes, especially in high building construction. Moreover, the combination of jibs' …

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 …

Neural observer and adaptive fractional-order backstepping fast-terminal sliding-mode control of RTG cranes

LA Tuan - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using three actuators, in this article, we construct a control system for rubber-tired gantry
(RTG) cranes to track three actuated outputs and stabilize two unactuated outputs. The …

Adaptive neural network tracking control for double-pendulum tower crane systems with nonideal inputs

M Zhang, X Jing - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel adaptive neural network tracking control method is systematically investigated for a
unique double-pendulum tower crane system model in this article. Several critical and …

Adaptive integral sliding mode control with payload sway reduction for 4-DOF tower crane systems

M Zhang, Y Zhang, H Ouyang, C Ma, X Cheng - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
An adaptive integral sliding mode control (AISMC) method with payload sway reduction is
presented for 4-DOF tower cranes in this paper. The designed controller consists of three …