A MECHATRONICS APPROACH IN INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS OF THE OVERHEAD TRAVELING CRANES PROTOTYPING

Abstract

The paper presents a mechatronics approach to elaborate intelligent control system of the real device: the two-spares overhead crane. The control system, based on fuzzy controller with Takagi-Sugeno-Kang fuzzy inference system, was elaborated, built and optimized during simulations conducted on mathematical models of the device and experiments conducted on the real device and next the control algorithm was implemented on the final control device, programmable logic controller PLC. Applied programming environment based on Matlab program and HMI (Human Machine-Interface) application as well as hardware’s solutions gave a possibility to build the control system using rapid prototyping method.