Overhead cranes are machines commonly used in transportation industries for carrying heavy loads. The control problem in overhead cranes deals with the development of anti-swing control systems to ensure that payload swing is minimized during travel. A large fraction of the literature on overhead cranes overlooks the safety aspect in overhead cranes; namely the development of industrial braking systems for emergency scenarios, which are necessary to avoid industrial accidents. This is known as the emergency braking problem and very few researches have addressed this problem comprehensively. This paper presents the development of a fuzzy controller for addressing the emergency braking problem in an overhead crane using fuzzy logic. Since the pendulum stabilization problem is also considered in drones carrying a cable-suspended payload, this area of work has important future prospects, which are discussed.
A Fuzzy Controller for the Emergency Braking Problem in Overhead Cranes
2022-02-11
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Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English