VTechWorks staff will be away for the Independence Day holiday from July 4-7. We will respond to email inquiries on Monday, July 8. Thank you for your patience.
 

Control of Rotary Cranes Using Fuzzy Logic and Time-Delayed Position Feedback Control

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorAl-Mousa, Amjed A.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairKachroo, Pushkinen
dc.contributor.committeecochairNayfeh, Ali H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPratt, Timothy J.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:49:11Zen
dc.date.adate2000-12-11en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:49:11Zen
dc.date.issued2000-11-27en
dc.date.rdate2001-12-11en
dc.date.sdate2000-12-09en
dc.description.abstractRotary Cranes (Tower Cranes) are common industrial structures that are used in building construction, factories, and harbors. These cranes are usually operated manually. With the size of these cranes becoming larger and the motion expected to be faster, the process of controlling them became dicult without using automatic control methods. In general, the movement of cranes has no prescribed path. Cranes have to be run under dierent operating conditions, which makes closed-loop control preferable. In this work, two types of controllers are studied: fuzzy logic and time-delayed position feedback controllers. The fuzzy logic controller is introduced first with the idea of split-horizon; that is, to use some fuzzy engines for tracking position and others for damping load oscillations. Then the time-delayed position feedback method is applied. Finally, an attempt to combine these two controllers into a hybrid controller is introduced. Computer simulations are used to verify the performance of these controllers. An experimental setup was built on which the time-delayed position feedback controller was tested. The results showed good performance.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-12092000-141829en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12092000-141829/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/36024en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartthesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCrane Controlen
dc.subjectHybrid Controlen
dc.subjectTower Craneen
dc.subjectGantry Craneen
dc.titleControl of Rotary Cranes Using Fuzzy Logic and Time-Delayed Position Feedback Controlen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
thesis.pdf
Size:
1.87 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Masters Theses