The motivation for this thesis resulted from a study of semi-automated rail mounted gantry cranes at an Australian seaport container terminal. The Sequential Ordering Problem with Time Windows (SOP-TW) can arise as a subproblem of these crane operations. The SOP-TW corresponds to the task of scheduling a single crane to move a set of containers, where each container has: a fixed pick-up locatio...

due to the considerable growth in the worldwide container transportation, optimization of container terminal operations is becoming highly needed to rationalize the use of logistics resources. for this reason, we focus our study on the quay crane scheduling problem (qcsp), which is a core task of managing maritime container terminals. from this planning problem arise two decisions to be made: t...

The Hanoï Tower problem is a classic exercise in recursive programming: the solution has a simple recursive definition, and its complexity and the matching lower bound correspond to the solution of a simple recursive function (the solution is so simple that most students memorize it and regurgitate it at exams without truly understanding it). We describe how some minor change in the rules of th...

Most of the operational problems in container terminals are strongly interconnected. In this paper, we study the integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem in seaport container terminals. We will extend the current stateof-the-art by proposing novel set partitioning models. To improve the performance of the set partitioning formulations, a number of variable reduction techniq...

This paper is introduced to be the obstacle recognition, path planning and oscillating control for an automobile crane system on-line. We studied the autonomous mobile overhead traveling crane so for. In particular, the research of obstacle recognition, path plan and oscillating control is carried out. For on-line obstacle recognition, the obstacle recognition system using the ultrasonic sensor...

This article proposes a methodology to measure the productivity of construction site through analysis tower crane data. These data were obtained from logger that records time series spatial and load lifting machine during structural phase project. The first step was collection, followed by preparation, which consisted formatting cleaning dataset. Then, visualization identified most meaningful f...

Due to the dramatic increase in the world’s container traffic, the efficient management of operations in seaport container terminals has become a crucial issue. In this work, we focus on the integrated planning of the following problems faced at container terminals: berth allocation, quay crane assignment (number), and quay crane assignment (specific). First, we formulate a new binary integer l...

In this paper, Hop eld neural networks have been considered in solving tower of Hanoi test which is used in determining of de cit of planning capability of human prefrontal cortex. The main di erence of this work from the ones in the literature which use neural networks, is: The tower of Hanoi problem has been formulated here as a special shortest path problem. In the literature, some Hop eld n...

The paper investigates directives addressed to tower crane operators by a construction worker. By examining grammatical variation in connection with load relocation tasks, the study shows how design and sequential positioning of directive turns vary systematically according particular phase work task overall structural organization activity. worker's selection lexico-syntactic forms embodied ac...