| Abstract: | Shipboard cranes are extensively utilized in numerous fields such as cargo transferring and offshore engineering. The control of shipboard cranes, especially the antiswing control of payloads, has attracted much research attention due to their typical underactuation characteristics and complicated dynamics. Through comparisons of the traditional land-fixed cranes, a brief review on modeling and dynamics analysis is presented to illustrate the tremendous challenges and difficulties in controller design for shipboard cranes. A comprehensive review and brief analysis of shipboard crane control strategies are further presented. Some future research directions are also put forward for reference. It is expected that the paper will be useful for improving existing control schemes and generating novel control approaches for shipboard crane systems. |
