Sincronización de sistemas activos en procesos de manejo de materiales

The present work proposes an application of automata’s language and control systems in discrete events theory in a prototype of material handling system to ensure the continuity in the sequence that a transferred piece will have to execute between two points of a productive process. Also guaranteeing the synchronization of its active elements, in this case, a robot in angular configuration and a conveyor belt, for the fulfillment of its specific task without errors. We describe the development of the prototype for testing, the programming of the digital process controllers based on the theoretical methodology suggested, and finally, the integration of a graphical monitoring and control interface that allows the visualization of the system state to the user. The results suggest the adequate performance of the developed algorithms, the graphical interface and, in general, of the active elements that make up the material handling system.