Crane-lift operations are critical in construction. With the advancement of information and
communications technologies, crane-lift automation (CLA) has been increasingly explored …

With the ongoing advancements in sensor networks and data acquisition technologies
across various systems like manufacturing, aviation, and healthcare, the data driven …

This paper presents a passivity-based adaptive control method for a 5 degree-of-freedom
(DOF) tower crane that guarantees robust payload trajectory tracking. The 5-DOF tower …

This paper proposes an adaptive input shaper for swing control of a five degrees of freedom
tower crane under various parameter uncertainties together with payload hoisting and …

Crane swing & relevant vibration are critical safety and efficiency issues to be addressed in
construction automation, involving various disturbance and uncertainties. This paper …

In this paper, a novel periodic sliding mode control method is designed for 4-DOF tower
crane systems with unmatched disturbances as well as unknown/time-varying control …

Underactuated systems are widely used in practice. Due to actuator saturation and transient
performance requirements, it is necessary to keep the control inputs and system states …

This paper focuses on the development of minimum time control profiles for point-to-point
motion of a gantry crane system in the presence of uncertainties in modal parameters …

This paper introduces a method to navigate the UAV flight and to suppress the payload
swing by a nonlinear coupling control augmented with time-varying cable length. Special …

Overhead cranes, as an important tool for loading and transporting, play an important role in
modern industry. A key challenge in overhead crane control is payload mass variation: a …