• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.42-49
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• 2008

The most important job in the container terminal area is to handle the cargo effectively in the limited time. To achieve this object, many strategies have been introduced and applied to. If we consider the automated container terminal, it is necessary that the cargo handling equipments are equipped with more intelligent control systems. From the middle of the 1990's, an automated rail-mounted gantry crane(RMGC) and rubber-tired gantry crane(RTG) have been developed and widely used to handle containers in the yards. Recently, in these cranes, the many equipments like CCD cameras and sensors are mounted to cope with the automated terminal environment. In this paper, we try to support the development of more intelligent automated cranes which make the cargo handling be performed effectively in the yards. For this plant, the modelling, tracking control, anti-sway system design, skew motion suppressing and complicated motion control and suppressing problems must be considered. Especially, in this paper, the system modelling and tracking control approach are discussed. And, we design the tracking control system incorporating an observer based on the 2DOF servo system design approach to obtain the desired state informations. In the case of observer design, a weighted $H_{\infty}$ error bound approach for a state estimator is considered. Based on an algebraic Riccati equation(inequality) approach, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a full-order estimator which satisfies the weighted $H_{\infty}$ error bound is introduced. Where, the condition for existence of the estimator is denoted by a Linear Matrix Inequality(LMI) which gives an optimized solution and observer gain. Based on this result, we apply it to the tracking control system design for the transfer crane.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2000

This paper presents the design of an optimal state feedback controller for container cranes under some design specifications. To do this, the nonlinear equation of a container crane system is linearized and then augmented to eliminate the steady-state error, and some constraints are derived from the design specifications. Designing the controller involves a constrained optimization problem which classical gradient-based methods have difficulties in handling. Therefore, a real-coding genetic algorithm incorporating the penalty strategy is used. The responses of the proposed control system are compared with those of the unconstrained optimal control system to illustrate the efficiency.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.526-529
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• 2002

The development of automated container terminal has been a hot issue for recent years. It's very natural because it's very important how many containers, how soon, and how precisely a container terminal can treat. A crane treats a very heavy container, maybe, no less than 20∼40 tons, thus most cranes use ropes to take up and land containers. But rope causes the sway of a container and this phenomenon is not avoided. On the ground of this, in most case how much skillful a driver is may affect the productivity of a yard or quay crane. Thus many researches have been concentrated on the development of the control algorithm for a crane which may be useful and robust enough to drive a crane without any human driver. Authors of this paper also are interested in this kind of research but we have been much more interested for years in the development of a mechanical structure which may cause much less sway than the existing cranes do. In this paper, we may introduce the basic structure of the developed anti-sway system.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.247-252
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• 2007

항만의 하역 향상성을 위해 그동안 컨테이너 크레인의 작업효율을 높이는 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 특히 화물이 목표치에 도달했을 때 흔들림을 단시간에 제어하는 데 초점이 맞추어져 왔다. 일반적으로 컨테이너 크레인을 제어하기 위해서 PID 제어나 LQ제어가 주로 사용되었는데, 이는 제어기 설계가 용이하고, 주어진 제어 환경 하에서 우수한 제어성능을 발휘하기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 LQ 제어의 관점에서 실수코딩 유전알고리즘을 이용한 상태 피드백 제어기의 설계 방법을 제안한다. 즉, 실수코딩 유전알고리즘을 이용하여 상태 피드백 이득을 탐색하는 방법이다. 실수코딩 유전알고리즘은 주어진 목적함수가 최소가 되도록 상태 피드백 이득을 최적으로 탐색한다 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션은 이렇게 탐색한 상태 피드백 이득을 컨테이너 크레인의 선형 및 비선형 모델에 적용하여 그 유효성을 확인한다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 1998년도 추계학술대회논문집:21세기에 대비한 지능형 통합항만관리
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• pp.159-165
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• 1998

In this paper the sway-control problem of a container crane is investigated. The control loop is divided into two stages. The first stage is a modified time optimal control for trolley traversing. The velocity command for trolley traversing consists of three components ; a reference velocity and two feedback signals for compensating the deviations of trolley and sway angle from their desired trajectories. For trolley's exact positioning the trolley dynamics is identified via an error equation identifier structure. The second stage is a nonlinear residual sway control that starts at the end of first stage. The control design for the second stage is investigated from the perspective of controling an underactuated system, and the control law combines the feedback linearization and variable structure control.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.215-216
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• 2009

종래의 크레인에서는 생산성 향상을 목적으로 최단 시간내에 작업을 행하는 최단시간제어기법이 사용되었으며, 이률 위해서 목표 위치에 대해서 속도 패턴을 생성하고 속도 패턴에 따라 제어를 행하고 있다. 그러나 최근 항만에서도 녹색항만정책에 의해 에너지의 고효율 사용법이 논의되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 ARMC에 대한 에너지 효율을 검토하기 위한 기초연구로서 ARMC의 3D 모델링을 행하며 ARMC의 가속도 특성에 대하여 분석하도록 한다. 먼저, ARMC의 비선형방정식을 통한 3D 상태방정식을 유도하였으며, 시뮬레이션을 통한 ARMC의 가속도 특성을 고찰하여 이상적인 경제적 운전 방법에 대해서 고찰한다.

• 소음진동
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.765-772
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• 1997

This paper presents the swing motion analysis of the container crane headblock with the passive control device using hydraulic motors and anti-swing ropes. The device hauls at the headblock to opposite direction of its swing motion using the tension difference between anti-swing ropes connected to the headblock. To consider this control mechanism, the headblock is modelled as the rigid bar suspended by two hoist ropes at the overhead trolley and its non-linear equation of motion is derived using Lagrange's equation. Some numerical experiments using the equation are carried out to investigate the swing motion characteristics of the headblock under the variation of geometric relation among the cargo handling components and to evaluate the performance of the anti-swing device.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.379-387
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• 2007

In this paper, a nonlinear anti-sway controller for container cranes with load hoisting is investigated. The considered container crane involves a planar motion in conjunction with a hoisting motion. The control inputs are two (trolley and hoisting forces), whereas the variables to be controlled are three (trolley position, hoisting rope length, and sway angle). A novel feedback linearization control law provides a simultaneous trolley-position regulation, sway suppression, and load hoisting control. The performance of the closed loop system is shown to be satisfactory in the presence of disturbances at the payload and rope length variations. The advantage of the proposed control law lies in the full incorporation of the nonlinear dynamics by partial feedback linearization. The uniform asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system is assured irrespective of variations of the rope length. Simulation and experimental results are compared and discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.816-821
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• 2005

The remote operation of $4\~5$ cranes for container loading/unloading at a port by one operator will dramatically improve loading/unloading efficiency through productivity increase, cost reduction, and so on. This study develops a remote crane control system for container loading/unloading yard cranes. First, a wireless video and audio system to transmit views and sounds of the working field is designed by using 3 web cameras and a microphone. Next, a RSVP-based multi-path reservation method is presented with a view to improving the quality of service in the communication network for remote control. Simulation results show that a RSVP-based multi-path reservation can enhance the reservation success rate in the TCP/IP network.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.132-138
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• 1997

Six different types of velocity profiles of trolley movement of a container crane are investigated for the minimal sway angle at the target trolley position. Three velocity patterns which include trapezoidal, stepped and notched-type velocity patterns are obtained assuming constant rope length. The notched type velocity pattern is shown to be derived from the time-optimal bang-bang control. The stepped type velocity pattern can be shown to be derived as bang-off bang control as well. Considering the damping effect due to hoist motion a double stage acceleration pattern is also analyzed. The main objective of the paper is to show how much time-reduction can be obtained among several velocity patterns appearing in the literature.