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AbstractOverloaded vehicles pose a real threat to road safety and significantly contribute to the degradation of the road surface. High-Speed Weigh in Motion (HS-WIM) stations are the commonly used method of eliminating them from traffic. In Poland, HS-WIM stations operate in pre-selection mode, sending information to services about the potential exceedance of acceptable standards by a specific vehicle. The article presents the results of the data analysis from selected HS-WIM stations operating on the national road network in Poland indicating significant limitations of the effectiveness of the whole system. The main reason for this may be that carriers use the knowledge about the HS-WIM stations location and working time to avoid inspections. The results presented in the paper indicate, among other things, that in some locations the share of vehicles overloaded with traffic increases significantly outside the working hours of the controlling services. For Light Commercial Vehicle, the share of overloaded vehicles in this group is also significant. Also, the paper indicates that the effectiveness of the procedure for determining vehicle overload has been limited due to errors in classification.

It is often desirable to keep the load of an offshore crane in a fixed point in space despite the movement of its base. To solve the problem of stabilizing the load’s position, the authors have proposed application of the hoisting winch drum’s drive and an auxiliary system. The auxiliary system enables independent moving of a selected point of the hoisting rope in two perpendicular planes. In this paper, two methods for determining the drive functions of the auxiliary system and the hoisting winch’s drum ensuring stabilization of an offshore crane’s load are presented. Both methods are based on a simplified model of a crane and allow compensation for a pseudo-harmonic base motion. In order to take into account the deviations of base motion from the assumed and avoid over simplifications, the second, more sophisticated model is developed. This model is proposed to be applied in closed-loop control systems with a PID controller. Results of sample numerical simulations are included that proved useful information about the developed methods and models for stabilization of an offshore crane’s load.

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