Crane control method, and crane

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12030752-B2
Application number	US-202017423356-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2020
Priority date	Mar 27, 2019
Publication date	Jul 9, 2024
Grant date	Jul 9, 2024

Abstract

There is provided a crane control method whereby shaking of a load is suppressed when automatically transporting the load along a set transport path using a crane; and a crane that is controllable by this control method. The control method includes: calculating a target transport time (Ti) of a load (W), transported by a crane (1), in a section defined by two passing points adjacent in a passing order; calculating, from a distance between the passing points and the target transport time (Ti), a target speed signal of the load (W) in the section; converting a stepped target speed signal, which connects the target speed signal of the section and a target speed signal of another section adjacent to the section, to a non-stepped target speed signal using a target value filter (F); and carrying out control on the basis of the non-stepped target speed signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control apparatus of a crane that automatically conveys a load along a conveyance path given as point group data including at least coordinates of a passing point of the load and a passage order of each passing point, wherein the control apparatus comprises a hardware processor that:
calculates a target conveyance time of the load in a section and another section adjacent to the section, each of the section and the another section defined by two passing points adjacent to each other in the passage order on the point group data;
calculates a target speed signal of the load in the section and the another section on a basis of a distance between the two passing points and the target conveyance time that is calculated for each of the section and the another section; and
converts, into a non-stepwise target speed signal, a stepwise target speed signal connecting the target speed signal of the section and the target speed signal of the another section adjacent to the section through a use of a low-pass filter to control the crane on a basis of the non-stepwise target speed signal.

2. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor further
subdivides the section into a plurality of control sections corresponding to any of an acceleration section, a constant-speed section and a deceleration section, on a basis of a transition of a change from the target speed signal of the section to the target speed signal of another section adjacent to the section; and
generates the non-stepwise target speed signal by applying the low-pass filter to the target speed signal of the acceleration section and the deceleration section.

3. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 2 , wherein the hardware processor further creates a data set including at least a target conveyance time of the control section and information representing the low-pass filter suitable for the control section.

4. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 3 , wherein the hardware processor further creates the data set before a control of automatically conveying the load is started.

5. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 2 , wherein the hardware processor further
sets a result obtained by applying the low-pass filter to the target speed signal of the acceleration section and the deceleration section as a time required for each of the acceleration section and the deceleration section, and
sets a time obtained by subtracting the time required for each of the acceleration section and the deceleration section from the target conveyance time as a time of the constant-speed section.

6. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 2 , wherein the hardware processor further
calculates a target conveyance speed of the load in the section by dividing a distance between the two passing points by the target conveyance time that is calculated, and
calculates the target speed signal on a basis of the target conveyance speed and a crane model of the crane.

7. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 3 , wherein the hardware processor further
detects a current position of the load after the crane is operated through a feed forward control using the target speed signal of the load, and
determines the control section where the load is currently located on a basis of the current position of the load that is detected, and selects the data set to be used next using the control section where the load is currently located that is determined.

8. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 1 , wherein the low-pass filter is a high-order low-pass filter based on an inverse dynamics model.

9. The control apparatus of the crane according to claim 1 , wherein
the target speed signal of the load is a signal for making a request to an actuator configured to operate a boom and a wire rope of the crane, and
the target speed signal of the load includes a target speed of displacing the boom in a luffing direction, a target speed of displacing the boom in a slewing direction, and a target speed of displacing the wire rope in a feed-in/feed-out direction.

10. A crane comprising the control apparatus according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Tadano Ltd

Inventors

• Minami Yoshimasa

Classifications

• G05D1/43

  Control of position or course in two dimensions [2D] · CPC title

• G05D1/10

  Simultaneous control of position or course in three dimensions (G05D1/12 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B66C13/48 Primary

  Automatic control of crane drives for producing a single or repeated working cycle; Program control · CPC title

• B66C13/06 Primary

  for minimising or preventing longitudinal or transverse swinging of loads · CPC title