Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are fast routes to the final results of slow, adiabatic changes
of the controlling parameters of a system. The shortcuts are designed by a set of analytical …

This article deals with an uncertain two-link rigid–flexible manipulator with vibration
amplitude constraint, intending to achieve its position control via motion planning and …

When modeling cranes, the hook and the suspended cargo are usually regarded roughly as
one mass point for simplicity, ie, the cargo swing is modeled as that of a single pendulum …

To transfer heavy payloads at construction sites, tower cranes are essential. However, tower
cranes are a complex underactuated system due to the strong coupling between the jib …

Underactuated cranes play an important role in modern industry. Specifically, in most
situations of practical applications, crane systems exhibit significant double pendulum …

The payload hoisting and mass variations increase the control difficulty of the underactuated
stacker crane. Especially, vibration control of flexible structure with external disturbances is a …

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

Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at
significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting …

As an efficient transportation tool, a tower crane is widely used in construction sites. To
improve the working efficiency, some automatic control methods have been proposed for …

This paper analyzes the dynamics of an offshore boom crane and proposes a high-
performance nonlinear controller to drive the system states to track some constructed …