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Abstract The block erection using a crane such as a gantry crane and a floating crane is one of the most important processes in the production of ships and offshore structures. To mount the block with the correct position and angle, it is important to control the block accurately not to occur the unexpected movement like rotation. However, it is difficult to apply the existing control theory to the block lifting operation because the movement of the block is controlled indirectly with the control of various objects such as the crane and wire ropes. To solve this problem, a block control method based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed in this study. The proposed method is easier to control the block with wire ropes and to consider irregular external force than existing control theory. In this study, the angle and angular velocity of the lifting block and the hoisting speed of each wire rope that can affect the motion of the block are set as states of reinforcement learning, and the hoisting speed that is the control object is set as an action of reinforcement learning. The reward function of reinforcement learning is designed to increase when the angle of the block decrease and the speed of the block is close to the target speed. In this study the policy gradient method which is a kind of policy-based methods of deep reinforcement learning is used to solve the problem with continuous states and action. To check the applicability and feasibility of the proposed method, The block lifting simulation is performed using the existing control theory and the proposed method. We compared the proposed method with the existing control theory. The result shows that the proposed method can minimize the motion of the lifting block more effectively than the existing control theory.
Publication Date 2019-08-28

Do-Hyun Chun, Myung-Il Roh, Hye-Won Lee, Seung-Ho Ham, "A Crane Movement Control for Stability of Block Erection Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning", MIM(International Federation of Automatic Control) 2019, Berlin, Germany, 2019.08.28-30


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  2. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, "Ship Mooring Design Based on Flexible Multibody Dynamics", Proceedings of the 13th IMDC, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 563-566, 2018.06.10-14

  3. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, "Modeling of a Mooring System Based on Flexible Multibody Dynamics Considering Contact with Seabed", Proceedings of the 9th ACMD 2018, Xian, China, 2018.08.19-23

  4. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, "Method for the Accurate and Automatic Operation of Offshore Floating Cranes for the Block Erection in Shipyards", Proceedings of OMAE 2020, Held in Virtual Conference, 2020.08.03-07

  5. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, "Control of the Underactuated Gantry Crane for the Block Erection Operation in the Shipyard", MIM 2019, Berlin, Germany, 2019.08.28-30

  6. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, "Collision Analysis of Block Erection by a Floating Crane", Proceedings of ACDDE 2016, Jeju, Korea, 2016.10.25-28

  7. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, "Dynamics-based Collision Analysis for Block Erection in Shipyard", Proceedings of the 30th Asian-Pacific TEAM 2016, Mokpo, Korea, 2016.10.10-13

  8. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Luman Zhao, Seung-Ho Ham, Nakwan Kim, Chan-Woo Yu, "Integrated Development Environment Of Autonomic Software for USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle) Based on Ros (Robot Operating System)", Proceedings of ICCAS 2017, Singapore

  9. Hye-Won Lee, Myung-Il Roh, Ki-Su Kim, Kuk-Jin Kang, Seong-Yeob Jung, "Arctic Sea Route Planning Based on POLARIS Rule", Proceedings of ISOPE 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 875-877, 2019.06.16-21

  10. Dong-Hoon Jeong, Myung-Il Roh, Seung-Ho Ham, Woo-Young Choi, Chan-Young Lee, Kyung-Min Seo, Dong-Chul Lee, "Simulation-Based Performances Analysis for Naval Ships at the Initial Design Stage", Proceedings of ISOPE 2016, Rhodes, Greece

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