Modular RT-Motion USB

During the course of this thesis, RTM-USB (Real Time Motion on Universal Serial Bus) has grown from a single board motor controller to a motion control platform. The original RTM-USB board, containing a CPU and two motor drivers, has been extended (hardware wise) with a network/bus interface which makes it easy to expand the hardware...

Frequency-Domain Modelling of Reset Control Systems using an Impulsive Description

The ever-increasing industry desire for improved performance makes linear controller design run into its fundamental limitations. A nonlinear controller, such as Reset Control (RC), is needed to overcome these. RC is promising since, unlike other nonlinear methods, it easily integrates into the PID design framework preferred by industry. Thus...

Motion Control System for Offshore Lifting Operations

This MSc thesis presents an investigation into motion control systems aimed at reducing swing motion of a lifting load during offshore heavy lifting operations. Two distinct models are developed for this objective. Subsequently, an analysis is done to assess the impact of various control aspects.<br/><br/>First, an assessment of the offshore...

Lyapunov Stable Path Planning and Control for Autonomous Vehicles

In modern society cars are one of the most important means of transportation. Unfortunately, many people die in car accidents around the world. Research shows that the number of fatal casualties in car accidents has been increasing for the past decade and that the largest cause of these accidents is the human driver. For this reason, research on...

Tuning of the ‘Constant in gain Lead in phase’ Element for Mass-like Systems

The development of the high-tech industry has pushed the requirements of motion applications to extremes regarding precision, speed and robustness. A clear example is given by the wafer and reticle stages that require rigorous demands like robust nanometer precision and high-speed motion profiles to ensure product quality and production...

Improving the noise robustness of reset controllers with an observer

The performance of linear control is limited by the waterbed effect, while the performance demands of industry are continuously increasing. Using non-linear control in the future is therefore unavoidable. Being non-linear, reset control is able to achieve better performance than linear control. However, the lack of robustness to measurement...

Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments

Motion planning for Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGVs) in dynamic environments is an extensively studied and complex problem. State of the art methods provide approximate solutions that make conservative assumptions to provide safety and feasibility. We aim to outperform current methods by following a trajectory optimization-based approach,...

Vibrations In An Active Controlled Hexapod

The Ampelmann system occasionally starts vibrating unexpectedly, especially while the system is placed on a pedestal. These vibrations are believed to be caused by the eigenfrequencies of the system and/or amplification caused by the motion control algorithm. In this research an investigation in this phenomenon was done. This investigation was...

Model-free Positioning Control of a Payload by use of Wires

With the highly increased interest in offshore wind turbines and their technologies, the sector has witnessed rapid development in the past decade. For installed offshore wind turbines, there has been a lot of research conducted in the field of aero-, hydro- and structural dynamics, wind turbine-control, operation &amp; maintenance, foundations...