METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT CRANE LIFTING

摘要

A method is proposed for automatically generating a crane lifting path describing the motion of a crane. The method includes: laser scanning a plant to generate one or more point clouds; using the point clouds to identify objects to be lifted by the crane; rasterizing the laser scanned point clouds to generate digital data describing the plant and in a format for input to a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU); and iteratively optimizing a crane lifting path, including using the GPU and the digital data to detect collisions between one or more cranes and the plant if the crane follows the crane lifting path.

主权项

1. A method of generating a crane lifting path describing the motion of a crane carrying an object within a plant, the method comprising:
(i) forming a model of a plant and a model of the crane, wherein the model of the plant comprises a multi-level depth map containing rasterized data; (ii) iteratively optimizing a crane lifting path describing a motion of the crane within the plant, the iterative optimization being performed using the models and at least one graphics processing unit (GPU), to detect collisions between the crane and the plant if the crane follows the crane lifting path.