Control of Slender-Beam Payloads During Lift-Up Operations

Author(s):  
Shenghai Wang ◽  
Aldo Ferri ◽  
William Singhose ◽  
Yujia Yang

When lifting up a long slender beam from ground, the payload may slip or move suddenly in unintended and unpredictable ways. This occurs during crane operations when the movements of the overhead trolley and the hoist cable are not properly coordinated. Also, it is difficult to keep the centers of hook and payload mass aligned with the pivot point when the payload is lifted off the ground, resulting in undesired hook and payload swing. The payload’s unintended sliding or swing can potentially cause damage and reduce efficiency. This paper divides the lift-up process into two phases including a constrained phase and a free hanging phase, develops a combination of PID controller and speed envelope to prevent slip in the constrained phase, and presents an observer-based Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control strategy to stabilize the double-pendulum oscillations in the free hanging phase. The robustness of the proposed observer-based LQR was analyzed. Lift-up experiments were carried out to verify the controller development.

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kong ◽  
Lei ◽  
Wang ◽  
Long ◽  
Lu ◽  
...  

In this paper, automatic control of the water level in an irrigation canal by automatic regulation of intermediate gates was studied. Previous scholars have proposed a water level difference control strategy that works to keep relative deviations in all pools the same for a particular situation where the operator does not have full control over the canal inflow, with the centralized linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control method used. While in practice, the deviation tolerance of pools may differ in some canals which limits the applicability of the control strategy. In this work, a weight coefficient was added to the deviation and the algorithm was improved to keep the relative deviations to certain proportions. The model predictive control (MPC) method was then used with this improved control strategy and was compared to the LQR control method using the same control strategy. The results showed that the improved strategy can keep the water level deviations in all pools to certain proportions, as is our objective. Also, under this difference control strategy, the MPC method greatly improved the control performance compared to the LQR control method.


Author(s):  
William J. Emblom ◽  
Klaus J. Weinmann

This paper describes the development and implementation of closed-loop control for oval stamp forming tooling using MATLAB®’s SIMULINK® and the dSPACE®CONTROLDESK®. A traditional PID controller was used for the blank holder pressure and an advanced controller utilizing fuzzy logic combining a linear quadratic gauss controller and a bang–bang controller was used to control draw bead position. The draw beads were used to control local forces near the draw beads. The blank holder pressures were used to control both wrinkling and local forces during forming. It was shown that a complex, advanced controller could be modeled using MATLAB’s SIMULINK and implemented in DSPACE CONTROLDESK. The resulting control systems for blank holder pressures and draw beads were used to control simultaneously local punch forces and wrinkling during the forming operation thereby resulting in a complex control strategy that could be used to improve the robustness of the stamp forming processes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Mousa ◽  
M. A. Ebrahim ◽  
M. A. Moustafa Hassan

The inherited instabilities in the Inverted Pendulum (IP) system make it one of the most difficult nonlinear problems in the control theory. In this research work, Proportional –Integral and Derivative (PID) Controller with a feed forward gain is used with Reduced Linear Quadratic Regulator (RLQR) for stabilizing the Cart Position and Swinging-up the Pendulum angle. Tuning the Controllers' gains is achieved by using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Technique. Obtaining the combined PID controllers' gains with a feed forward gain and RLQR is a multi-dimensions control problem. The Proposed Controllers give minimum Settling Time, Rise Time, Undershoot and Over shoot for both the Cart Position and the Pendulum angle. A disturbance with different amplitudes is applied to the system, and the results showed the robustness of the systems based on the tuned controllers. The overall results are promising.


Author(s):  
Eungkil Lee ◽  
Tao Sun ◽  
Yuping He

This paper presents a parametric study of linear lateral stability of a car-trailer (CT) combination in order to examine the fidelity, complexity, and applicability for control algorithm development for CT systems. Using MATLAB software, a linear yaw-roll model with 5 degrees of freedom (DOF) is developed to represent the CT combination. In the case of linear stability analysis, a parametric study was carried out using eigenvalue analysis based on a linear yaw-roll CT model with varying parameters. Built upon the linear stability analysis, an active trailer differential braking (ATDB) controller was designed for the CT system using the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) technique. The simulation study presented in this paper shows the effectiveness of the proposed LQR control design and the influence of different trailer parameters.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-318
Author(s):  
Achmad Komarudin ◽  
Novendra Setyawan ◽  
Leonardo Kamajaya ◽  
Mas Nurul Achmadiah ◽  
Zulfatman Zulfatman

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is an optimization algorithm that is simple and reliable to complete optimization. The balance between exploration and exploitation of PSO searching characteristics is maintained by inertia weight. Since this parameter has been introduced, there have been several different strategies to determine the inertia weight during a train of the run. This paper describes the method of adjusting the inertia weights using fuzzy signatures called signature PSO. Some parameters were used as a fuzzy signature variable to represent the particle situation in a run. The implementation to solve the tuning problem of linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control parameters is also presented in this paper. Another weight adjustment strategy is also used as a comparison in performance evaluation using an integral time absolute error (ITAE). Experimental results show that signature PSO was able to give a good approximation to the optimum control parameters of LQR in this case.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Elshazly ◽  
Hossam Abbas ◽  
Zakarya Zyada

In this paper, development of a reduced order, augmented dynamics-drive model that combines both the dynamics and drive subsystems of the skid steering mobile robot (SSMR) is presented. A Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control algorithm with feed-forward compensation of the disturbances part included in the reduced order augmented dynamics-drive model is designed. The proposed controller has many advantages such as its simplicity in terms of design and implementation in comparison with complex nonlinear control schemes that are usually designed for this system. Moreover, the good performance is also provided by the controller for the SSMR comparable with a nonlinear controller based on the inverse dynamics which depends on the availability of an accurate model describing the system. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and enhancement provided by the proposed controller.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 477 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Augusti Lindiya ◽  
N. Subashini ◽  
K. Vijayarekha

Single Inductor (SI) converters with the advantage of using one inductor for any number of inputs/outputs find wide applications in portable electronic gadgets and electrical vehicles. SI converters can be used in Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) configurations but they need controllers to achieve good transient and steady state responses, to improve the stability against load and line disturbances and to reduce cross regulation. Cross regulation is the change in an output voltage due to change in the load current at another output and it is an added constraint in SI converters. In this paper, Single Input Dual Output (SIDO) and Dual Input Dual Output (DIDO) converters with applications capable of handling high load current working in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) of operation are taken under study. Conventional multivariable PID and optimal Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) controllers are developed and their performances are compared for the above configurations to meet the desired objectives. Generalized mathematical models for SIMO and MIMO are developed and a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to find the parameters of a multivariable PID controller and the weighting matrices of optimal LQR where the objective function includes cross regulation as a constraint. The simulated responses reveal that LQR controller performs well for both the systems over multivariable PID controller and they are validated by hardware prototype model with the help of DT9834® Data Acquisition Module (DAQ). The methodologies used here generate a fresh dimension for the case of such converters in practical applications.


2013 ◽  
Vol 307 ◽  
pp. 316-320
Author(s):  
Mustafa Tinkir ◽  
Mete Kalyoncu ◽  
Yusuf Şahin

In this paper, the dynamic behaviour of two degree of freedom building-like structure system against unexpected input such as seismic excitation is considered by experimentally. Proposed system consists of two floors structure with active mass damping (AMD) and shaker. Passive and active mode deflection responses of the floors are investigated and also a cart is used to suppress vibrations, which moves linear direction and is mounted on the second floor. PV (proportional and velocity) control of the cart is realized in passive mode. Moreover LQR (Linear Quadratic Regulator) control is designed to control the cart in active mode while system under excitation. For this aim a full-order observer is designed and implemented to control strategy. Displacements of cart, deflections and accelerations results of the floors are presented separately for passive and active mode responses of the system in the form of graphics.


2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadzilah Hashim ◽  
Mohd Yusoff Mashor ◽  
Siti Maryam Sharun

This paper presents a study on the estimator based on Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control scheme for Innovative Satellite (InnoSAT). By using LQR control scheme, the controller and the estimator has been derived for state space form in all three axes to stabilize the system’s performance. This study starts by converting the transfer functions of attitude control into state space form.  Then, the step continues by finding the best value of weighting matrices of LQR in order to obtain the best value of controller gain, K. After that, the best value of L is obtained for the estimator gain. The value of K and L is combined in forming full order compensator and in the same time the reduced order compensator is also formed. Lastly, the performance of full order compensator is compared to reduced order compensator. From the simulation, results indicate that both types of estimators have presented good stability and tracking performance. However, reduced order estimator has simpler equation and faster convergence to zero than the full order estimator. This property is very important in developing a satellite attitude control for real-time implementation.


Author(s):  
Dechrit Maneetham ◽  
Petrus Sutyasadi

This research proposes control method to balance and stabilize an inverted pendulum. A robust control was analyzed and adjusted to the model output with real time feedback. The feedback was obtained using state space equation of the feedback controller. A linear quadratic regulator (LQR) model tuning and control was applied to the inverted pendulum using internet of things (IoT). The system's conditions and performance could be monitored and controlled via personal computer (PC) and mobile phone. Finally, the inverted pendulum was able to be controlled using the LQR controller and the IoT communication developed will monitor to check the all conditions and performance results as well as help the inverted pendulum improved various operations of IoT control is discussed.


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