This article presents a complete review of the modeling and control schemes for overhead
cranes operating in 2D and 3D spaces published to date. The modeling schemes including …

In practice, underactuated systems are widely used, and their control problems have
attracted much attention in recent years. For safety concerns or transient performance …

For practical mechanical systems, uncertainties/disturbances, such as unmodeled dynamics
and frictions, are nonignorable factors. For existing control methods, these factors are …

Shipboard cranes are extensively utilized in numerous fields such as cargo transferring and
offshore engineering. The control of shipboard cranes, especially the antiswing control of …

This article presents a new cascaded extended state observer (CESO)-based sliding-mode
control (SMC) for an underactuated flexible joint robot (FJR). The control of the FJR has …

In practice, offshore cranes are effective transportation tools used on ships. Different from
land-fixed cranes, offshore cranes work in the noninertial frame, which are usually affected …

As commonly used tools for industrial production, overhead crane systems may suffer from
the double pendulum effect in practice when the hook is not negligible or the payload cannot …

Complex pendulum-sloshing dynamics induced with specific payloads such as the
suspension liquid container increase incredibly the difficulty of the anti-swing control for …

Using three actuators, in this article, we construct a control system for rubber-tired gantry
(RTG) cranes to track three actuated outputs and stabilize two unactuated outputs. The …

An adaptive integral sliding mode control (AISMC) method with payload sway reduction is
presented for 4-DOF tower cranes in this paper. The designed controller consists of three …