2025/07/02 by Mikel Palmero, M. Palmero, Palmero, Mikel +5 · 1 voice
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics #physics.class-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.01688
openalex publication_date 2025/07/02 · arxiv published 2025/07/02 · arxiv updated 2025/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We introduce a mechanical control system for energy efficient and robust hoisting crane operations. The control system efficiently translates the harmonic motion of a spring loaded mediating system into the desired driving of the load, recyling most of the employed energy for subsequent operations. The control output is a shortcut-to-adiabaticity protocol borrowed from quantum mechanics. The control system reduces the single operation consuption in realistic working regimes, but it is in cyclical processes where the energetical advantage becomes substantial. The design of the control system and the control output is flexible enough to allow additional optimization of the robustness against perturbations.