Designing and Creating a Simulated Controller System for Handling Station of Festo Modular Production System and Robot Using Tecnomatix Plant Simulation
The main objective of this thesis is to develop a wireless control and monitoring system of material handling process using Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. the material handling process is modelled by Festo MPS handling station and Mitsubishi RV-M1 robot. the problem that needs to be solved is the monitoring of the sequence of the process occurs during the material handling process that can be addressed for troubleshooting the real system. This project work creates a system that facilitates the connection from Tecnomatix to the machine in terms of controlling and monitoring. Cubieboard, a single-board computer is used to receive wireless data package and forward it in logic level form to the PLC input module. Two bridging programs are generated using Qt-Creator to converts the message protocol, enabling communication between Tecnomatix, cubieboard and the Handling Station. Wireless communication takes place between the communications of Tecnomatix in the form of Modbus data by using the infrastructure of TCP/IP socket connection. Several tests are conducted to examine the generated system, yet hardware, software and the messaging protocol. By the end of the project, Tecnomatix is able to send command through the system to the Robot and the animation is displayed, even though it is not real time. However, the sequence of the system follows the Tecnomatix as the controller.
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