ObjectC 100
Programmer's
Guide
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Figure 14: Example of pallets being sorted according to height:
Goods G1 to Zone Z1
B
Blanked beams
Goods G2 to Zone Z3
CZ Carrier zone
Goods G3 to Zone Z4
Table 52: Example for an evaluation for a palet transport storage system
Zone Status
Good height
Z4
Z3
Z2
Z1
0
0 0 0
No goods
(or carrier only)
0 0 0 1 Goods
with
height
1
0 0 1 1 Goods
with
height
2
0 1 1 1 Goods
with
height
3
1
1
1
1
Goods with height 4
Zones can be defined as overlapping and zones may contain as few as one beam or as many as all beams
(Figure 15). A zone is defined by specifying two beams, a low and a high beam, e.g. zone 3 in the left side of
Figure 15 is defined by z3L = 13 and z3H = 19.
The ObjectC
-
100
-
I/O
controller has 4 digital outputs, one representing the status for each of the 4 zones.
ObjectC
°
100
°
CAN and RS485 do not offer zone monitoring, but beam information can be determined using the
communication telegram "Get zone status (40 [28 Hex]".
