Optimization and Simulation of Portable Crane's Arm System Based on MATLAB

摘要

The arm system is the central part in the design of a portable crane. The purpose of this program is to assure that the load moves approximately along the path of the horizontal direction in the process of luffing, through the optimization of the bars' length of the arm system. Using vectors in the mathematical model, we figured out the coordinates of the bottom point of the truck-beam according to the geometric relationships of the four-bar linkage. With the appliance of proper algorithm and the idea of visualization, we calculated the reasonable length of the bars in MATLAB and transformed the results into software ultimately. The design is suitable for different types of portable cranes, and the software is very convenient and can be used in engineering.