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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (24): 254-268.doi: 10.3901/JME.2020.24.254

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Key Characteristics and General Framework of Control System for Intelligent Crane

LI Guojie   

  1. Applied Technology College, Soochow University, Suzhou 215325
  • Received:2020-03-20 Revised:2020-07-15 Online:2020-12-20 Published:2021-02-05

Abstract: Crane is developing towards the intelligent direction. The intelligent characteristics and the control system framework determine the overall performance and technical direction of intelligent crane, which is the core of crane intellectualization research. The development process of China's crane products from traditional crane to intelligent crane is briefly reviewed, and the main performance characteristics and relevance of traditional crane, automatic crane, industrial robot and intelligent crane are compared. The related industries and crane products that should be focused on in the intelligent crane research is proposed. The universality and personalization features of intelligent crane are analyzed and summarized. Moreover the general framework of intelligent crane control system is put forward, and the key functional modules and subsystems is analyzed in detail. The relevance between the modules and subsystems, the main data flow direction and the realization method of intelligent crane are discussed. The importance of the construction of a powerful internal and external information interconnection, smooth data exchange and sharing mechanism of intelligent crane system are emphasized. The wide-area intelligent system of crane is defined for the first time. And the group intelligence of wide-area intelligent system including the intelligent crane is the key to realize intelligent operation of intelligent crane system, and the depth and breadth of information sharing and data interconnection of the wide-area intelligent system determine the level of intelligent system.

Key words: intelligent crane, key characteristics, control system, general framework, data interconnectionk

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