Feedback Controller Stabilizing Vibrations of a Flexible Cable Related to an Overhead Crane

摘要

The problem of stabilizing vibrations of flexible cable related to an overhead crane is considered. The cable vibrations are described by a hyperbolic partial differential equation (HPDE) with an update boundary condition. We provide in this paper a systematic way to derive a boundary feedback law which restores in a closed form the cable vibrations to the desired zero equilibrium. Such a control law is explicitly constructed in terms of the solution of an appropriate kernel PDE. The pursued approach combines the “backstepping method” and “semigroup theory”.