Design and Simulation of Time-energy Optimal Anti-swing Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Tower Cranes


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Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

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Dutta, S., & Cai, Y. Design and Simulation of Time-energy Optimal Anti-swing Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Tower Cranes. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.


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Dutta, Souravik, and Yiyu Cai. “Design and Simulation of Time-Energy Optimal Anti-Swing Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Tower Cranes.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, n.d.


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Dutta, Souravik, and Yiyu Cai. “Design and Simulation of Time-Energy Optimal Anti-Swing Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Tower Cranes.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.


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@unpublished{souravik-a,
  title = {Design and Simulation of Time-energy Optimal Anti-swing Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Tower Cranes},
  journal = {Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering},
  author = {Dutta, Souravik and Cai, Yiyu}
}

Abstract

For autonomous crane lifting, optimal trajectories of the crane are required as reference inputs to the crane controller to facilitate feedforward control. Reducing the unactuated payload motion is a crucial issue for under-actuated tower cranes with spherical pendulum dynamics. The planned trajectory should be optimal in terms of both operating time and energy consumption, to facilitate optimum output spending optimum effort. This article proposes an anti-swing tower crane trajectory planner that can provide time-energy optimal solutions for the Computer-Aided Lift Planning (CALP) system developed at Nanyang Technological University. The CALP system facilitates displacement-optimal collision-free lifting path planning of robotized tower cranes in autonomous construction sites. The current work introduces a trajectory planning module to the system that utilizes the geometric outputs from the path planning module and optimally scales them with time information. Firstly, analyzing the non-linear dynamics of the crane operations, the tower crane is established as differentially flat. Subsequently, the multi-objective trajectory optimization problems for all the crane operations are formulated in the flat output space through consideration of the mechanical and safety constraints. Two multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, namely Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) and Generalized Differential Evolution 3 (GDE3), are extensively compared as potential optimizers. Statistical measures of performance based on the closeness of solutions to the Pareto front, distribution of solutions in the solution space and the runtime of the algorithms are computed to select the optimization engine of the planner. Finally, the crane operation trajectories are obtained via the corresponding planned flat output trajectories. Studies simulating real-world lifting scenarios are conducted to verify the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed module of the lift planning system.

Keywords

Under-actuated tower cranes
Lift planning system
Optimal trajectory planning
Payload swing reduction
Constrained multi-objective optimization
Evolutionary algorithm




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