• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.27-48
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• 1999

The paper is concerned with application to develop the expert system, which structural analysis and design process for tower cranes. The system is organized into three groups. One is pre-processor for creating input data files, another is `model former' which combines knowledge-base with inference engine for automatic generating structural analysis models, a third is application group for final analysis checks. In this study, geometric subroutine of `model former' designates node positions, nodes, elements numbers and element types. Load data subroutine computes weight of tower crane and device, slewing force, cargo load, wind force form rules or equations in knowledge-base. Also, Property and boundary subroutine applies element properties and boundary conditions to suitable elements and nodes. Design and analysis expert system for tower crane integrates these subroutine, `model former' and pre-processor. RBR(Rule-Base Reasoning) was adopted for a reasoning strategy of this expert system. And this expert system can produce structural analysis model and data, which can be used in ordinary structural analysis program (SAP, ADINA or NASTRAN, etc.). In this paper, this expert system produces format of the analysis model data, which are used in MSC/NASTRAN. The main discussions included in the paper are introduction of the tower crane and structural analysis, composition of the design expert system for tower crane and structural analysis using the expert system.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.114-122
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• 2006

The most important thing in the container terminal is to handle the cargo effectively in a limited time. To achieve this objective, many strategies have been introduced and applied. If we consider the automated container terminal, it is necessary that the cargo handling equipment is equipped with more intelligent control systems. From the middle of the 1990s, 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, equipment like CCD cameras and sensors have been mounted to cope with the automated terminal environment. In this paper, we try to support the development of more intelligent automated cranes that make the cargo handling be performed effectively in the yards. For this plant, we ought to consider modeling, tracking control, anti-sway system design, skew motion suppressionand complicated motion control and suppressing problems. In this paper, the system modeling and a tracking control approach are discussed, based on a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) servo-system design. From the simulation results, the good control performance of the designed control system is evaluated.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1404-1409
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• 2003

The sway control problem of the pendulum motion of the container crane hanging on the trolley, which transports containers from the container ship to the truck, is considered in this paper. In the container crane control problem, the main issue is to suppress the residual swing motion of the container at the end of the acceleration, deceleration or the case of that the unexpected disturbance input exists. For this problem, in general, the trolley motion control strategy is introduced and applied to real plants. In this paper, we suggest a new type of swing motion control system for a crane system in which a small auxiliary mass is installed on the spreader. The actuator reacting against the auxiliary mass applies inertial control forces to the spreader of the container crane to reduce the swing motion in the desired manner. In this paper, we consider that the length of the rope varies is we design the anti-sway control system based on LMI(linear matrix inequality) approach. And, it will be shown that the proposed control strategy is useful and it can be easily applicable to the real world. So, in this study, we investigate usefulness of the proposed anti-sway system and evaluate system performance from simulation and experimental studies.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.373-374
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• 2006

This study is carried out to analyze the stability of a container crane in according to the change of a wind direction and a machinery house location when a wind load of a wind velocity, 75m/s was applied on the state stowing a container crane by a heavy wind. A design wind load applied to this study was calculated in observance of 'Load Criteria of Building Structure'. And we analyzed the reactions of each supporting points according to appling a wind direction to an interval of $10^{\circ}\;in\;0^{\circ}{\sim}180^{\circ}$ and the structure stability of a container crane according to changing a machinery house. location occupying 15% of a container crane weight. From a results of this study, we presented a design criteria of an overturning disturbance equipment, tie-down.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

Recently, a shipyard is making every effort to efficiently manage equipments of resources such as a gantry crane, transporter, and so on. So far block lifting scheduling of a gantry crane has been manually performed by a manager of the shipyard, and thus it took much time to get scheduling results and moreover the quality of them was not optimal. To improve this, a block lifting scheduling system of the gantry crane using optimization techniques was developed in this study. First, a block lifting scheduling problem was mathematically formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem, considering the minimization of travel distance at an idle state and wire replacement during block lifting. Then, to solve the problem, a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm based on the genetic algorithm was proposed. To evaluate the efficiency and applicability of the developed system, it was applied to an actual block lifting scheduling problem of the shipyard. The result shows that blocks can be efficiently lifted by the gantry crane using the developed system, compared to manual scheduling by a manager.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.715-725
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• 2000

본 논문은 링크구성 설계를 통하여 결정된 하나의 이중링크 형식 수평인입 집 크레인에 대하여 작업위치에 따라 각 링크의 변위, 속도, 가속도 해석을 하고, 인입 가감속에 의한 관성력, 바람에 의한 풍하중, 크레인 자중 및 정격 권상하중 등이 크레인에 작용할 때 인입장치에 요구되는 정적 힘을 계산하였다. 모든 해석과정은 전산 프로그램으로 작성되었고, 프로그램의 신뢰성은 관련 범용 소프트웨어들의 해석 결과와 비교하여 검증하였다. 따라서, 본 논문에서 개발한 전산 프로그램은 이중링크 형식 수평인입 집 크레인의 설계 실무에 있어서 이동하중에 대한 인입궤적의 진폭 및 작업위치에 따라 인입장치에 요구되는 힘의 해석을 신속, 정확하게 처리할 수 있어 설계의 생산성 및 신뢰성 제고뿐만 아니라 기본설계 기술력의 확보 측면에서 그 의의가 있다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.215-220
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• 2009

컨테이너 크레인은 강풍으로부터 보호를 받기 위한 차폐물이 없는 곳에 존재하기 때문에 이상 기후 조건에 취약성이 있는 구조물이다. 본 연구에서는 붐 각도의 변화에 따라 풍동실험과 전산유동 해석을 사용하여 컨테이너 크레인의 구조물에 대한 풍하중의 영향을 수행하였다. 그리고 75m/s의 풍속을 컨테이너 크레인에 적용하였다고 가정하였을 때 컨테이너 크레인의 풍력 내구성 설계에 사용되는 데이터를 컨테이너 크레인 설계자에게 제공하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 건축물 하중기준의 풍하중 설계기준에 따라 풍하중을 적용하였으며 풍향에 따른 영향을 분석하기 위해서 유동장을 $10^{\circ}$ 간격으로 분할하였다. 이를 바탕으로 풍동실험과 전산 유동해석을 수행하였으며 얻어진 결과들을 비교 연구함으로써 컨테이너 크레인의 구조설계에 필요한 풍하중을 분석하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 1998년도 추계학술대회논문집:21세기에 대비한 지능형 통합항만관리
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• pp.153-158
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• 1998

In this paper, we present a design of optimal 2-DOF PID controller for control of gantry crane which has to control swing motion and trolley position. For tuning the parameter of 2-DOF PID controller, we used evolution strategy(ES). During operate the crane system in yard, the goal is transporting the load to a goal position as quick as possible without rope oscillation. The crane is generally operated by an expert operator, but recently an automatic control system with high speed and rapid transportation is required. However, we developed an optimal controller which has to control the crane system with disturbance.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2008

A crane is very important mechanical systems in industrial applications to move huge objects. Especially, in marine port terminals, it is used to place container boxes at desired position within given operating time. However, such system is faced with environmental disturbance such as wind from the sea, thus crane control system is required to cope with this nature. This paper proposed robust and adaptive control algorithm of a complicated 3D crane against the environmental disturbance. We simplify a mathematical design procedure to derive our control algorithm. We conduct real-time experiment using a crane simulator to evaluate its superiority and reliability.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2012

Crane systems have been widely used for transportation in building sites, ports, nuclear wastehandling operation and so on. As a typical underactuated system, an overhead crane has such merits as high flexibility and less energy consumption. And it's getting more types of cranes, universally applicable algorithms should be developed. That is the design and development of scalable algorithms are required. Developed algorithms can be used for the controller and crane overload protection that meets the requirements of the algorithm are presented. These algorithms force the state to warn the operator and stops the operation of equipment. In this paper, crane overload conditions that can cause damage to alert the operator, and to limit the operation of equipment overload protection algorithm is presented.