Adaptive Coupling Anti-Swing Tracking Control of Underactuated Dual Boom Crane Systems.

Underactuated dual boom crane (DBC) systems exhibit complicated nonlinearity and strong coupling due to the lack of independent actuators. Moreover, plant parameters may change in different transportation tasks and are difficult to be measured accurately, which leads to inaccurate gravity (torque) compensation and further brings positioning errors. Hence, most existing controllers based on exact model knowledge cannot ensure satisfactory control performance any longer. In order to handle the above issues, this article designs an adaptive sliding mode tracking controller for DBC systems based on the original complicated nonlinear dynamics without any linearization/simplification operations, which is the first one to effectively achieve both anti-swing and trajectory tracking control in the presence of parametric uncertainties. Not only can the state variables converge to the proposed sliding surface within finite time but also payload swing angles can be completely eliminated; consequently, the working efficiency and operation safety are further guaranteed. The corresponding stability and convergence for the equilibrium point of the closed-loop system are proven by rigorous mathematical analysis based on the Lyapunov techniques and Barbalat’s lemma. Hardware experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the presented controller. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]