Hello
Im investigating the possibility to simulate rotation of a stone slab using two conveyors in visual components.
As you can see in the picture below, i want to replicate the behaviour of the machine below.
Each conveyor belt can be individually controlled to make the stone rotate before being split.
How to i proceed to make this happened?
Worth mentioning is that there is a script that takes a screenshot of the current position of the stone in the simulation.
The image is then analysed and data is passed to a PLC that in turn tells the conveyors to rotate the stone to a desierd position before it is cut.
We need to validate that the control loop is working with a virtual representation of the machine.
You could try with two physics conveyors.
As far as I know a component can’t be on more than one normal “conveyor path” at a time.
I doubt that simulating it with the VC physics will work.
This situation in real life is a complicated matter of friction and weight distribution. How much of the weight is on one conveyor vs the other. Its never exactly 50:50. So it is impossible to predict the outcome.
This system needs a continuous feedback and must run until the stone is rotated into a satisfactory position. So a camera takes pictures continuously and tells to the PLC … a little to the left… a little to the right … a little more… done.
yes, we have a feedback loop
The image is then analysed and data is passed to a PLC that in turn tells the conveyors to rotate the stone to a desierd position before it is cut.
We need to validate that the control loop is working with a virtual representation of the machine.