Robust Control under Uncertainty for Seaport Handling Equipments

Uncertainty in transport includes mainly unavailability of transportation resource, durations of maintenance activities and the infrastructure constraints. The uncertainty influences the transportation resource availability, and consequently the planned transport schedule. Developments presented in this paper are devoted to the robustness control of transportation system. A robust control strategy towards uncertainty is presented. The presented control strategy tries to reduce unavailability of machines in transportation system and to minimize the total transfer time. To illustrate the effectiveness and accuracy of proposed robustness approach, an application to a seaport handling equipments is outlined.