The robotic flexible sortation system (RFSS) incorporates a Fanuc R2000-iC/165F robot, as well as proximity sensors, reed sensors, and photoelectric sensors (more than 25 of which were simulated in the development of the RFSS using digital twin technology from Siemens). The size of items the RFSS can sort is limited only to the payload of the industrial robot used in the system. The RFSS also includes a Siemens S7-1515F programmable logic controller (PLC), and a Siemens TP1200 Comfort human machine interface (HMI). Software used to develop and simulate the RFSS included Siemens TIA Portal v15.1, Siemens Simatic PLCSim Advanced, and Siemens Process Simulate solutions.
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