Mitsubishi Electronics FX1S Points to note, Selective Branch/ First State Merge Example Program

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STL Programming 3

3.11.2A Selective Branch/ First State Merge Example Program

The following example depicts an automatic sorting robot. The robot sorts two sizes of ball bearings from a mixed ‘source pool’ into individual storage buckets containing only one type of ball bearing.

X12	Y7
Y3	X1	X3	X4	X5
	X1	X3	X4	X5
Y4
	Y2	X2
	Y2
	Y0
		Y1
			X0

The sequence of physical events (from initial power On) are:

1)The pickup arm is moved to its zero-point when the start button (X12) is pressed. When the pickup arm reaches the zero-point the zero-point lamp (Y7) is lit.

2)The pickup arm is lowered (Y0) until a ball is collected (Y1). If the lower limit switch (X2) is made a small ball bearing has been collected; consequently no lower limit switch signal means a large ball bearing has been collected. Note, a proximity switch (X0) within the ‘source pool’ identifies the availability of ball bearings.

3)Depending on the collected ball, the pickup arm retracts (output Y2 is operated until X3 is received) and moves to the right (Y3) where it will stop at the limit switch (X4 or X5) indicating the container required for storage.

4)The program continues by lowering the pickup arm (Y0) until the lower limit switch (X2) is reached.

5)The collected ball being is released (Y1 is reset).

6)The pickup arm is retracted (Y2) once more.

7)The pickup arm is traversed back (Y4) to the zero-point (X1).

Points to note

•The Selective Branch is used to choose the delivery program for either small ball bearings or large ball bearings. Once the destination has been reached (i.e. step S24 or S27 has been executed) the two independent program flows are rejoined at step S30.

•The example program shown works on a single cycle, i.e. every time a ball is to be retrieved the start button (X12) must be pressed to initiate the cycle.

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