Applications of Three Sensing Techniques for Crane Cable Localization
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Graham, Monica
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Adams, Christopher
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This software system supports a prototype device that detects the position of the hoisting cable in a construction crane. This is used to identify the deviation of the cable’s angle from the vertical, which aids in early risk alerts that in turn prevents construction accidents and injuries. Live sensor data from the mechanical system is streamed into the program, which then outputs the location of the cable it is detecting. For real world applications, these measurements must identify the crane’s cable angle within 0.5 degrees of its true value, which corresponds to detecting the position of the payload within 1 ft of its true location at typical construction cable angle lengths. The sensor layout that this software is designed for is a square with four rotating LiDAR units at each corner that have the objective of accurately locating an object in between them. Each sensor measures the distance of objects from the sensor, as well as the angle that the sensor is recording when the distance is measured.
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2026-12
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Undergraduate Thesis