Abstract
Ship-mounted cranes are used widely in the transportation and installation of heavy loads at sea. To minimize the sway motion induced by the harsh environment, the cranes are equipped with antisway-compensation equipment. To effectively test the feasibility of the antisway algorithms at the early design stage, the hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) technique can efficiently be used for the proposed technique of this study. In this study, it is applied to the example of the antisway control of a crane on an offshore support vessel during the installation operation of subsea equipment using the HILS.
