定制家居柔性化生产线控制系统信息交互模型

    Information interaction model for flexible production line control system of customized home furnishing

    • 摘要: 探讨板式定制家居柔性化生产线控制系统数据信息交互方法,以期为解决中小企业由于生产线中各工段所用控制系统的类型不同、总线不同而导致数据信息前后传递不畅、动作不协调的问题提供科学依据。分析定制家居柔性化生产线组成和工艺流程,建立控制系统模型;提出基于Modbus TCP/IP协议和类对象的思想构建数据信息交互模型,抽象出5个公共类:伺服电机类、变频电机类、加工工件类、指令输入类、状态输出类和7个私有类:龙门分拣机器人类、RGV运料小车类、开料裁板锯类、立体缓存机器人类、U型封边线类、打孔机器人类、终点缓存区类;为每个工段主机分配Modbus寄存器的起始、终止地址和数据缓冲区长度从而将数据交互方法实例化。研究结果表明所建数据信息交互模型可实现生产线不同工段间的信息流转和几种主流PLC之间的数据交互,达到5Hz的数据采样与交互频率且正确率达到了100%;易于实现扩展和移植,满足板式定制家居柔性化生产线的工艺需求,为板式定制家居柔性化生产线提供数据交互范式和接口技术。

       

      Abstract: Mass Customization (MC) has become the mainstream for home manufacturing industry. However, in many small and medium-sized enterprises, individual work section leads to the stagnation in information transmission, and the incoordination in action, due to different types of control systems and bus. The aim of this research was to establish a kind of data information interaction method to solve these problems. The technological process and function of work sections were analyzed based on the composition of flexible production and intelligent manufacturing of customized home furnishing. In plate-type, several specific sections were chosen to construct the control system model of flexible production line. The applicable hardware modules or software programs were added to incorporate controllers of each section into Modbus TCP/IP protocol. A data information interaction model was be established: firstly to develop a new design using object-oriented programming concept, then to analyze the overall structure of model and details in implementation, finally to instantiate and verify when operating the control system in a flexible production line. The established control system model included seven work sections, such as gantry sorting, RGV carrying, cutting, three-dimensional cashing, banding, punching and last cashing. The controllers and drivers in each section consist of the dominating PLCs and servo systems in control model. Four types of PLCs including Siemens, Schneider, Beckhoff and Delta, and five types of inner driving methods comprising DRIVE-CLiQ, Modbus RTU, high-speed pulse, CANopen and EtherCAT were chosen to set up the whole control system. The data information interaction model was established based on the Modbus TCP/IP bus and class object. All the controllers of work section were set as Modbus TCP/IP Servers, and the global system controller as Client. Five public classes and seven private classes were abstracted in the model. The former consisted of servo motor class, converter motor class, workpiece class, instruction input class, and status output class. The later involved gantry sorting robot class, RGV carriage class, cutting saw class, three-dimensional cashing class, banding line of U type class, punching robot class, and last cashing area class. It was necessary to make attributes and methods that inherited from private parent class and five public classes for building specific work section object. To instantiate data interaction model, it needed to construct mapping relation between attributes of work section object and Modbus register addresses, including starting point, ending point and buffer length. Based on the structures of work section object and redundancy of development, the length of address for each section object was set as 200 words, where the attributes were allocated a definite location. Therefore, writing-in and reading-out of data were carried out according to certain address space, which was operated by a uniform function corresponding to method of work section object. In software of TIA Portal, programming of data interaction method and model was realized by invoking function of MB_CLIENT and modifying input and output parameters. A physical prototype of flexible production line model was tested, where information was successfully transferred among different work sections, and data was interacted among the PLCs by modeling based on Modbus TCP/IP and object-oriented programming. The established model realized data sampling and interaction in a frequency of 5 Hz with interaction accuracy 100%, indicating that the proposed model can be easily transplanted and expanded to meet the process requirement of custom home flexible panel production lines. This finding can provided a potential template of data interaction, and interface technology for the flexible panel production of customize home furnishing.

       

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