Active control for an offshore crane using prediction of the vessels motion

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-309

  Küchler, Sebastian ^a   Mahl, Tobias ^a   Neupert, Jörg ^a,b   Schneider, K ^c   Sawodny, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^c General Manager and Hydraulic Technical Director of Zhejiang Liebherr Transportation System Co Ltd   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heave compensation; heave prediction; marine operation; nonlinear control; offshore technology

Indexed keywords

HEAVE COMPENSATION; HEAVE PREDICTION; MARINE OPERATIONS; NON LINEAR CONTROL; OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CRANES; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 78951472488     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2041933     Document Type: Article

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