Status of Smart Crane Lab Project: Modeling and Control for a Forwarder Crane

The report suggests a short overview of the status of the project to June 2008. The project itself is focused on developing kinematic and dynamic models for a crane commonly used in the forestry and mining applications. Based on these models we plan motions of a crane and suggest feedback controllers for their stabilization. Short description of the system, challenges to control the crane, the performed experimental studies and of the proposed algorithms is followed by the collection of copies of the papers published within the project in 2007-2008.