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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,359 Views
21 Pages

27 April 2025

To address the high-precision measurement requirements for container pose on dual-trolley quayside crane-transfer platforms, this paper proposes a machine vision-based measurement method that resolves the challenges of multi-scale lockhole detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,188 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

Real-time monitoring and early warning of structures are essential for assessing structural health and ensuring safety maintenance. To improve the timeliness of early warnings for structural abnormal states in quayside container cranes (QCCs) with in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,751 Views
24 Pages

5 February 2024

In the port domain, quayside container cranes are an indispensable component of maritime freight transport. These cranes are not only costly but also associated with safety accidents that often result in casualties and property loss, severely impacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,117 Views
19 Pages

29 October 2022

Strong wind has caused damage to group-arranged quayside container cranes in terminals and ports in recent years. Interference may amplify the wind loads in some cases. However, the interference effect among cranes has rarely been studied. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,780 Views
21 Pages

23 August 2024

For automated quayside container cranes, accurate measurement of the three-dimensional positioning and attitude of the container spreader is crucial for the safe and efficient transfer of containers. This paper proposes a high-precision measurement m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,143 Views
19 Pages

Motion Generation for Crane Simulators Using Streamlined Motion Blending Technology

  • Ze Zhu,
  • Yangyi Luo,
  • Hanbin Xiao,
  • Zhanfeng Li,
  • Chang Xu and
  • Guoxian Wang

1 September 2022

For development of a simulator with a motion platform to generate an appropriate motion to reproduce the motion sense for the users, one of the most significant but disregarded complicated tasks is to build up a dynamic virtual motion model to reflec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,503 Views
18 Pages

10 May 2022

Container terminals (CTs) play an important role in the modern logistics and transportation industry. The utilization of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can be effectively facilitated by reducing their empty running. The existing strategies cannot g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,941 Views
15 Pages

11 January 2025

The strategic optimization of a container terminal’s quayside assets, including the berth and quay cranes, is crucial for maximizing their deployment and utilization. The interrelated and complex challenges of Berth Allocation (BAP) and Quay Cr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,420 Views
29 Pages

Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Scheduling in Port Operations: A Systematic Review

  • Ndifelani Makhado,
  • Thulane Paepae,
  • Matthews Sejeso and
  • Charis Harley

Container terminals are facing significant challenges in meeting the increasing demands for volume and throughput, with limited space often presenting as a critical constraint. Key areas of concern at the quayside include the berth allocation problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,054 Views
21 Pages

In order to solve the problems of subjectivity in the extraction of traditional degradation features and incomplete degradation information contained in a single sensor signal, a performance degradation assessment and abnormal health status detection...