Control device for automatically stopping swiveling of cranes
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
InventorKazunori Kuromoto
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Abstract
A device which comprises first calculating means for calculating a lower-limit time Tmin of swiveling control on the basis of dynamic characteristics of a swiveling angular velocity control system, second calculating means for determining a swinging period T of the suspended load, third calculating means for selecting a smallest natural number n for which nT.gtoreq.Tmin, and braking and stopping control means for braking and stopping the rotary body with an angular acceleration .alpha. indicated by the equation .alpha.=-.OMEGA.O/nT (where .OMEGA.O is the swiveling angular velocity of the rotary body immediately prior to the initiation of automatic swiveling stopping control), and which eliminates influences of elastic vibrations so as to insure an excellent stopping accuracy.
Claims5
A control device for automatically stopping the swiveling of a crane in which a boom is attached to a rotary body and a load is suspended from a tip end of the boom, comprising:
- first measurement means for measuring an inertial moment of the rotary body;
- second measurement means for measuring an inertial moment of the load;
- memory means in which a plurality of swiveling control lower-limit times Tmin, which are set so that vibration of the boom falls within an allowable range when the boom swivels, are stored beforehand in association with a plurality of different values of the inertial moment of the rotary body and the inertial moment of the load, and which outputs one swiveling control lower-limit time Tmin, from among the plurality of different swiveling control lower-limit times Tmin stored therein, which corresponds to the inertial moment of the rotary body and the inertial moment of the load that are output from the first and second measurement means;
- third measurement means for measuring a swinging period T of the load;
- deceleration time calculating means for calculating a smallest natural number n for which nT.gtoreq.Tmin by using the swiveling control lower-limit time Tmin output from said memory means and the swinging period T output from said third measurement means, and for calculating a deceleration time nT obtain by multiplying swinging period T by the natural number n;
- target deceleration angular velocity calculating means for calculating a target deceleration angular velocity .alpha.(wherein .alpha.=-.OMEGA.O/nT and .OMEGA.O is a swiveling angular velocity of the rotary body immediately prior to the initiation of automatic swiveling stopping control), based on the deceleration time nT output from said deceleration time calculating means;
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- braking and stopping control means for braking and stopping the rotary body with the target deceleration angular velocity .alpha. calculated by the target deceleration angular velocity calculating means.
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