Application of PD and Genetic Algorithms for Control of two Overhead Cranes: a Virtual Approach

This paper presents the design and control of a new style overhead crane. The design approach is based on a modified traditional model of the overhead crane to allow the crane to move in three dimensions. Two overhead cranes acting in the same work space are designed to show the benefit of the proposed strategy. The modeling is done in the Visual Nastran (vn4d) software environment; and this is integrated with Matlab-Simulink for analysis and control purposes. The simulation results show that the proposed approach is effective with multiple cranes is acting in the same work space.