Assessing the safety status of cranes is an important problem. To overcome the inaccuracies and misjudgments in such assessments, this work describes a safety assessment method for cranes that combines entropy and cumulative prospect theory. Firstly, the proposed method transforms the set of evaluation indices into an evaluation vector. Secondly, a decision matrix is then constructed from the e...

When suspended payloads are moved with an overhead crane, pendulum like oscillations are naturally introduced. This presents a problem any time a crane is used, especially when expensive and/or delicate objects are moved, when moving in a cluttered and/or hazardous environment, and when objects are to be placed in tight locations. For example, one nuclear waste-handling operation examined by th...

this paper proposes a simple but efficient technique to control 3d overhead crane. load musttrack a desired path and not sway more than a reasonable range.the proposed method uses pidcontrol for trolley to track the desired path and fuzzy control compensation to eliminate the loadswing. only the projection of swing angle is applied to design the fuzzy controller. no plantinformation of crane is...

This paper puts forward an integrated optimisation model that combines two distinct problems arising in container terminals, namely the Quay Crane Assignment Problem, and the Quay Crane Scheduling Problem. The model is of the mixed-integer programming type with the objective being to minimise the tardiness of vessels. Although exact solutions can be found to the problem using Branch-and-Cut, fo...

Actuator fault diagnosis problem is studied for a class of nonlinear systems with relative degrees from the inputs to the outputs higher than one. This type of nonlinear systems include many mechanical systems, and their actuator fault diagnosis problem can be very challenging because of nonlinearities and high relative degrees. In this paper, in order to solve the actuator fault diagnosis prob...

Container terminals are designed to provide support for the continuous changes in container ships. The most common schemes used for dock management are based on discrete and continuous locations. In view of the steadily growing trend in increasing container ship size, more flexible berth allocation planning is mandatory. The consideration of continuous location in the container terminal is a go...

This study presents a steel container crane movement analysis and assessment based on structural health monitoring (SHM). The accelerometers are used to monitor the dynamic crane behavior and a 3-D finite element model (FEM) was designed to express the static displacement of the crane under the different load cases. The multi-input single-output nonlinear autoregressive neural network with exte...