Adaptive Control of a Flexible Crane System With the Boundary Output Constraint

In this paper, a flexible cable with a payload attached at the bottom is considered to be the model of a crane system used for positioning the payload. The dynamics of the flexible cable coupled with the tip payload contribute to a hybrid system represented by partial-ordinary differential equations. An integral-barrier Lyapunov function (IBLF)-based control is proposed to suppress the undesirable vibrations of the flexible crane system with the boundary output constraint. Adaption laws are developed for handling parametric uncertainties. A novel IBLF is adopted to guarantee the uniform stability of the closed-loop systems without the violation of the boundary constraint. All closed-loop signals are ensured to be bounded. Extensive simulations are demonstrated to illustrate the performance of the control system.

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