Over the last few decades, extensive use of flexible manipulators in various robotic
applications has made it as one of the research interests for many scholars over the world …

The control of flexible systems is a large and important field of study. Unwanted transient
deflection and residual vibration are detrimental to many systems ranging from nano …

An underactuated tower crane exhibits a significant payload sway especially under three
simultaneous motions involving trolley displacement, jib rotation and payload hoisting. This …

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 …

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 …

The usefulness of cranes is limited because the payload is supported by an overhead
suspension cable that allows oscillation to occur during crane motion. Under certain …

This paper presents a robust passivity-based adaptive control method for payload trajectory
tracking of a three degree-of-freedom overhead crane with a varying-length rigid hoist cable …

As a powerful large-scale construction tool, a tower crane is a strongly nonlinear
underactuated system presenting complicated dynamical characteristics. Existing control …

Robot arms exhibit non-ignorable residual vibration during point-to-point motion. Fractional
Delay Time-Varying Input Shaping Technology (FD-TVIST) has previously been shown to …

The transient and residual vibrations in flexible underactuated mechatronic systems
adversely affect the effectiveness and accuracy of performed tasks and movements …