Abstract
Tower cranes are well-known underactuated systems, where the design of controllers for them with time-varying rope length was weak in the past because of their complex dynamic characteristic. The payload oscillation will become worse when the jib slew angle, the trolley position and the rope length are changed simultaneously. The proposed method is designed based on robust adaptive sliding mode control via tracking nonzero initial reference trajectories, in which frictions and lumped disturbances in the crane system are eliminated, and unknown payload mass is effectively estimated online. Lyapunov technique is combined with LaSalle’s invariance theorem to design controller and analyze stability. Various and strict simulations are applied, which validate the effectiveness and extreme robustness of the proposed method.
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This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 51707092 and 61703202 and in part by the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under Grant SJCX21_0480.
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Tian, Z., Yu, L., Ouyang, H. et al. Sway and disturbance rejection control for varying rope tower cranes suffering from friction and unknown payload mass. Nonlinear Dyn 105, 3149–3165 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-06793-6
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