Genetic fuzzy approach to adaptive crane control system

In automated manufacturing processes the safety, precise and fast transfer of goods realized by automated material handling devices is required to raise efficiency and productivity of manufacturing process. Hence, in those industrial branches where cranes are extensively used the problem of an anti-sway crane control is especially important to speed-up the time of transportation operations and ensures the safe and effective transportation operations. The precise positioning of a cargo requires controlling the speed of crane motion mechanisms to reduce the sway of a payload. Moreover, the anti-sway crane control scheme involves applying the adaptive techniques owing to the nonlinearities of a system that comes especially from stochastic variation of rope length on which a payload is suspended and mass of this payload. The paper provides the design method of an adaptive control system for a planar model of crane. The control system is based on the gain scheduling control scheme created using fuzzy logic controller with Takagi-Sugeno-Kang-type fuzzy implications. The design process of a gain scheduling control system consists in selecting such a suitable set of operating points at which the linear controllers are determined that interpolation control scheme ensures the expected control quality within the known range of nonlinear system parameters changes, when those parameters vary in relation to the exogenous variables: rope length and mass of a payload. The method that is proposed in this paper to solve the problem of designing the fuzzy gain scheduling crane control system for minimum set of operating points is based on the pole placement method and genetic algorithm.