An automated gantry crane as a large workspace robot

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1323-1338

  Sawodny, Oliver ^a   Aschemann, Harald ^b   Lahres, Stephan ^c  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crane automation; Disturbance rejection; Model based decentralized control; Trajectory tracking control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; END EFFECTORS; MANUFACTURE; MOBILE ROBOTS;

WORKSPACE ROBOTS;

GANTRY CRANES;

AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CRANE; ROBOT;

EID: 0036965870     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(02)00097-7     Document Type: Article

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