基于能量分析的桥式起重机防摆控制方法

针对欠驱动桥式起重机在自动化驾驶研究中负载升/落吊运动与台车水平位移联动时,负载摆动抑制效果和控制性能不能满足实际工程需要,易造成安全事故的问题,提出一种基于能量分析的桥式起重机联动系统非线性耦合防摆控制器.采用非线性耦合控制方法,构造新型储能函数,设计出非线性耦合防摆控制器.利用LaSalle不变性原理和Lyapunov方法对该闭环反馈系统稳定性进行严格的数学分析.理论推导、仿真与实验结果表明:相比于非线性跟踪控制器和局部反馈线性化控制器,所提非线性耦合防摆控制器具有更佳的控制性能,不仅提高了负载的吊运效率,而且能够有效抑制和快速消除负载摆角;在添加外部扰动的情况下,仍能取得良好的控制效果,具有较强的鲁棒性,为桥式起重机联动系统提供了一种新的防摆控制方法.     

An Energy-based Nonlinear Coupling Control for Offshore Ship-mounted Cranes

This paper proposes a novel nonlinear energy-based coupling control for an underactuated offshore ship-mounted crane, which guarantees both precise trolley positioning and payload swing suppressing performances under external sea wave disturbance. In addition to having such typical nonlinear underactuated property, as it is well known, an offshore ship-mounted crane also suffers from much unexpected persistent disturbances induced by sea waves or currents, which, essentially different from an overhead crane fixed on land, cause much difficulty in modeling and controller design. Inspired by the desire to achieve appropriate control performance against those challenging factors, in this paper, through carefully analyzing the inherent mechanism of the nonlinear dynamics, we first construct a new composite signal to enhance the coupling behavior of the trolley motion as well as the payload swing in the presence of ship′s roll motion disturbance. Based on which, an energy-based coupling control law is presented to achieve asymptotic stability of the crane control system′s equilibrium point. Without any linearization of the complex nonlinear dynamics, unlike traditional feedback controllers, the proposed control law takes a much simpler structure independent of the system parameters. To support the theoretical derivations and to further verify the actual control performance, Lyapunov-based mathematical analysis as well as numerical simulation/experimental results are carried out, which clarify the feasibility and superior performance of the proposed method over complicated disturbances.     

伴有初始负载摆角的桥式起重机能量防摆控制

桥式起重机是一种广泛应用的大型搬运设备,在实际工作过程中,台车运动时会产生伴有初始负载摆角的负载摆动,影响工作效率并带来安全隐患.针对这种情况,设定期望的台车误差轨迹和摆角误差轨迹,将桥式起重机动力学模型转换为误差跟踪动力学模型,提出一种基于能量分析方法的桥式起重机防摆控制策略.通过LaSalle不变性原理和Lyapunov方法对闭环系统的稳定性进行理论分析.仿真与实验结果表明,所提防摆控制方法的控制性能几乎不受初始负载摆角的影响,可以保证桥式起重机在无初始负载摆角和带有初始负载摆角的情况下都能取得良好的控制效果,能够驱动台车准确到达目标位置,有效抑制并快速消除负载摆角,同时对外部扰动具有很强的鲁棒性.     

一种直接基于摆角约束的欠驱动桥式吊车轨迹规划方法

针对非线性桥式吊车系统,本文提出了一种新颖的基于摆角约束的轨迹规划方法.为了提高运送过程的效率和安全性,论文设计了期望轨迹以实现如下优点: 1)使台车很快到达目标位置; 2)将负载摆角抑制到可接受的范围之内; 3)当负载在目标位置停止时无残余摆动.具体而言,所设计的轨迹由三个阶段构成,每一阶段均根据抗摆和零残余摆角的要求来构造摆角曲线,在此基础上,利用桥式吊车的非线性运动学方程分析得到台车轨迹.论文引入了一种优化机制对运送时间,最大摆角等指标进行折衷考虑.文中通过仿真和实验结果表明了所设计的直接基于摆角约束的轨迹规划方法的性能.     

一种直接基于摆角约束的欠驱动桥式吊车轨迹规划方法（英文）

This paper proposes a novel swing constraint-based trajectory planning method for nonlinear overhead crane systems.To enhance the efficiency and security of the transportation process, some desired trajectories are designed to achieve the following merits: 1) leading the trolley to reach the destination sufficiently fast; 2) keeping the payload swing in an acceptable domain;3) eliminating the residue swing when the trolley stops at the desired position. Specifically, the trajectories are divided into three stages. For each stage, the desired curve of the swing angle is directly constructed in accordance with anti-swing and zero-residual swing requirements, based on which the trolley trajectory is then obtained by analyzing the nonlinear kinematics of the crane system.An optimization mechanism is introduced to make intelligent compromises among the indices of transportation time, maximal swing angle, and so on. Both simulation and experimental results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed direct swing constraint-based trajectory planning method.     

Adaptive Proportional-Derivative Sliding Mode Control Law With Improved Transient Performance for Underactuated Overhead Crane Systems

In this paper, an adaptive proportional-derivative sliding mode control (APD-SMC) law, is proposed for 2D underactuated overhead crane systems. The proposed controller has the advantages of simple structure, easy to implement of PD control, strong robustness of SMC with respect to external disturbances and uncertain system parameters, and adaptation for unknown system dynamics associated with the feedforward parts. In the proposed APD-SMC law, the PD control part is used to stabilize the controlled system, the SMC part is used to compensate the external disturbances and system uncertainties, and the adaptive control part is utilized to estimate the unknown system parameters. The coupling behavior between the trolley movement and the payload swing is enhanced and, therefore, the transient performance of the proposed controller is improved. The Lyapunov techniques and the LaSalle's invariance theorem are employed in to support the theoretical derivations. Experimental results are provided to validate the superior performance of the proposed control law.      

塔吊防摆LQR最优控制器研究

针对塔吊工作系统中出现的摆动现象,设计一种高效而快速的防摆控制器来对摆动进行抑制。系统利用拉格朗日方程建立三维力学数学模型,设计LQR控制器对摆动进行控制,采用Matlab进行仿真,通过改变加权矩阵Q得到LQR最优控制器;分别改变荷载重量和摆线长度,与PID控制进行比较,结果表明LQR最优控制对摆角的抑制更加明显,稳定时间也明显减少,是一种更加优化的控制方法。     

基于嵌套饱和方法的吊车系统非线性控制

针对吊车系统定位和防摆的控制要求,提出了一种基于嵌套饱和方法的非线性控制策略。对吊车系统动力学方程进行部分反馈线性化,并通过坐标变换将其转化为便于控制器设计的严格前馈级联规范型;在此基础上利用嵌套饱和非线性控制方法设计了吊车定位防摆控制器。仿真结果表明,该方法在较小的控制力作用下实现了吊车系统的定位和防摆,并且对于吊车系统参数的变化具有很强的鲁棒性。     

Kinematic coupling-based trajectory planning for rotary crane system with double-pendulum effects and output constraints

When the payload is too large or the hook mass cannot be ignored, the double-pendulum phenomenon may happen in rotary cranes practical applications. The increase in dynamic complexity makes it more difficult to fast and accurate positioning while suppressing swing during cargo transportation. Moreover, output constraints should be considered in actual crane systems. In this paper, a novel kinematic coupling-based trajectory planning method is proposed for double-pendulum rotary cranes with the constraints on angular acceleration and velocity of the boom. The proposed trajectory consists of two parts: a positioning reference component and a swing-eliminating component. The positioning reference trajectory takes into account the physical constraints of the actuator. The swing-eliminating trajectory is designed based on the kinematic coupling relationship among the boom luffing, the hook swing and the payload swing. Lyapunov techniques and Barbalat lemma are used for stability analysis. Numerical simulation and real experiments verify the superior control performance and robustness of the proposed control method.     

A New Adaptive Neuro-sliding Mode Control for Gantry Crane

This paper presents a new adaptive neuro-sliding mode control for gantry crane as varying rope length. This control method derived from combining the sliding surfaces of three subsystem of the gantry crane (trolley position, rope length, anti-swing) to draw out two system sliding surfaces: the trolley position with the anti-swing and the rope length and the anti-swing. On the based of the sliding mode control principle, drawn out the equivalent controller and the switching controller for gantry crane. But due to the uncertain parameters-nonlinear model of gantry crane with the bound disturbances, combining the neural approximate method, defined the neural controller and the compensation controller for the difference between the equivalent controller and the neural controller for two system control inputs: trolley position and rope length. The adaptive control laws for these controllers were deduced from Lyapunov’s stable criteria to asymptotically stabilize the sliding surfaces. Simulation studies are performed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control.     

An Enhanced Coupling Nonlinear Tracking Controller for Underactuated 3D Overhead Crane Systems

An enhanced coupling nonlinear tracking control method for an underactuated 3D overhead crane systems is set forth in the present paper. The proposed tracking controller guarantees a smooth start for the trolley and solves the problem of the payload swing angle amplitude increasing as the transferring distance gets longer for the regulation control methods. Different from existing tracking control methods, the presented control approach has an improved transient performance. More specifically, by taking the operation experience, mathematical analysis of the overhead crane system, physical constraints, and operational efficiency into consideration, we first select two desired trajectories for the trolley. Then, a new storage function is constructed by the introduction of two new composite signals, which increases the coupling behaviour between the trolley movement and payload swing. Next, a novel tracking control strategy is designed according to the derivation form of the aforementioned storage function. Lyapunov techniques and Barbalat's Lemma are used to demonstrate the stability of the closed‐loop system without any approximation manipulations to the original nonlinear dynamics. Finally, some simulation and experiments are used to demonstrate the superior transient performance and strong robustness with respect to different cable lengths, payload masses, destinations, and external disturbances of the enhanced coupling nonlinear tracking control scheme.     

A new approach for the anti-swing control of overhead cranes with high-speed load hoisting

The objective of this study is to design a new anti-swing control scheme for overhead cranes, the performance of which equals or possibly surpasses the performance of a skilled crane operator. In this study, the anti-swing control problem is solved as a trajectory-tracking control problem. An anti-swing trajectory control scheme is designed based on the Lyapunov stability theorem, and then extended to an adaptive scheme to cope with parametric uncertainties, in which sufficient damping of load swing is achieved by modifying the reference trajectory of the trolley. The proposed control consists of a feed forward control and a non-linear PID control with gravity compensation, which guarantees asymptotic stability while keeping all internal signals bounded. The proposed control, allowing high-speed load hoisting, also guarantees accurate control of trolley position and rope length with optimum damping. In summary, the proposed control realizes a typical crane operation in practice, maintains its control performance in the presence of parametric uncertainties, and has a simple structure for easy implementation and gain tuning. The performance of the proposed control is shown with computer simulations.     

基于模糊控制的桥式起重机定位防摆研究

针对线性二次型最优控制(LQR)法在起重机定位防摆中存在的不足,在分析了桥式起重机小车运行物理模型的基础上,将模糊理论引入起重机定位防摆中,提出了基于模糊理论控制的思想,设计了一种基于模糊的起重机定位与防摆控制方法.通过建立隶属度函数与模糊控制规则,利用两个模糊控制器对小车的位置和负载的摆动角度分别进行控制,建立了模糊控制系统.通过与LQR仿真结果进行比较,结果表明了该方法的可行性与较好的鲁棒性.     

Adaptive neural network hierarchical sliding mode control for six degrees of freedom overhead crane

This paper presents an effective control method for three-dimensional (3D) overhead cranes with six degrees of freedom (DOF). Two payload swings and an axial payload oscillation should be minimized besides driving the bridge, trolley, and hoisting drum to bring the payload to the desired position in space. First, a novel 3D-6DOF crane model is developed, where the sixth degree of freedom is axial cargo oscillation that has never been considered in previous studies. A controller is then designed using the hierarchical sliding mode control method. Moreover, a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is used to approximate the system's unknown dynamic model accurately. According to the Lyapunov principle, a control law and an updated law for the neural network's weight matrices are designed to ensure the stability of the closed-loop system. Simulation results on Matlab software show the proposed approach's effectiveness, such as smaller swing, minor axial oscillation, and precise position as desired.     

Nonlinear tracking control of underactuated cranes with load transferring and lowering: Theory and experimentation

A bridge crane is a complicated nonlinear underactuated mechatronic system, for which high-speed positioning and anti-swing control is the kernel objective. Existing methods for varying cable length cranes require either linearizations or approximations, when performing analysis, and they usually assume small load swing; moreover, the ranges of the tracking errors cannot be guaranteed during the overall process. Motivated by these facts, we present a new tracking scheme for cranes with load horizontal transportation and lowering control, which achieves simultaneous load swing suppression and elimination. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed method yields the first feedback closed-loop control result not needing linearization or approximation operations to the original nonlinear crane dynamics with cable length variation, while relaxing the common assumption imposed on load swing associated with existing methods. It can also guarantee that the tracking errors are always within a priori set bounds and converge to zero rapidly. Lyapunov-like analysis is implemented to support the theoretical derivations. We carry out hardware experiments to illustrate the superior control performance of the new method.     

A pure neural network controller for double‐pendulum crane anti‐sway control: Based on Lyapunov stability theory

Crane systems have been widely applied in logistics due to their efficiency of transportation. The parameters of a crane system may vary from each transport, therefore the anti‐sway controller should be designed to be insensitive to the variation of system parameters. In this paper, we focus on pure neural network adaptive tracking controller design issue that does not require the parameters of crane systems, i.e. the trolley mass, the payload mass, the cable lengths, and etc. The proposed neural network controller only requires the output feedback signals of the trolley, i.e. the position and the velocity, which means no sway measuring equipment is needed. The Lyapunov method is utilized to design the weights update law of neural network, and the robustness of the proposed controller is proved by the Lyapunov stability theory. The results of numerical simulations show that the proposed neural network controller has excellent performance of trolley position tracking and payload anti‐sway controlling.     

深海起重机系统的实时轨迹规划方法

近年来, 随着海洋资源的不断开发与海洋工程的全球化推进, 深海起重机得到了广泛应用, 其控制问题也引起研究人员的极大关注. 在深海作业环境中, 由于吊运过程受到水流作用力的影响, 负载摆动幅度增大, 系统状态量间非线性耦合关系增强, 使系统控制难度加大. 为此, 本文针对深海起重机系统提出了一种实时轨迹规划方法. 具体而言, 通过分析系统动力学特性和状态变量之间复杂的耦合关系, 提出了一种实时规划轨迹的方法, 并从理论上证明了该方法可在使台车准确快速到达指定位置的同时, 有效抑制负载摆动. 最后, 一系列仿真结果证明了所提方法的良好性能.     

Active damping methods to suppress the payload swing by a 3-degree of freedom cable-driven parallel robot

Marine cranes play an important role in many hoisting scenes. However, due to the ship motion excitation and crane operation, the payload swing is unavoidable, hence putting the operators in danger. Thus, this paper proposes two active damping methods to suppress the payload swing by a 3-DOF cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR). First, the structure of the 3-DOF CDPR is briefly introduced. Then, the dynamic model of the system is modeled as a constrained spherical pendulum with moving base excitations. Meanwhile, inspired by the air damping phenomenon, two active damping methods are presented to damp the payload swing naturally and smoothly. Furthermore, the payload swing under ship motion excitation and external hitting disturbances is analyzed, the influence mechanism of system damping parameters on the payload anti-swing is discussed, and the robustness of the proposed damping methods is verified. By theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, some interesting discoveries are revealed: (1) the proposed damping methods can effectively suppress the big offset of payload swing angle inducing by external hitting disturbance, but the system might reach a dynamic equilibrium with a tilting hoist cable; (2) the phenomenon of “off-center spherical pendulation” might be induced by improper setting of the damping parameters.     

基于ARM的塔机安全自动监控系统的设计

针对目前塔机运行过程中存在的安全隐患问题,提出了一种基于ARM的塔机自动安全监控系统。该系统以ARM为主控制器,实现了塔机运行时工作状态的监控、显示、记录和报警,通过无线通信技术,实现了相关塔机运行状态的信息传输及塔机之间的相互定位,依靠防碰撞算法,控制塔机输出,预防塔吊群交叉作业时的相互碰撞。该系统制造成本低、具有良好的实时性、可靠性以及广泛的应用价值,符合塔机监控系统小型化、智能化的发展方向。     

适于长距离运输的分段吊车模糊控制

针对长距离吊车运输系统的特征,提出了分段切换因子模糊控制方法.该方法使用两个子模糊控制器分别用于抗摆和定位控制,并运用实值遗传算法选取模糊控制器的分段切换因子.仿真结果表明:该方法保证了定位精度并能有效地抑制超调,在加速阶段、运输阶段和减速阶段能够使载荷摆角最小,并且能够在目标位置进行消摆控制,其性能优于传统二次型最优控制.