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How to have single state for loading and unloading?

Consider this simple model. It uses robot as a task executor. In the state chart, It shows loading and unloading. I want to have only a single state called "Processing" instead of loading and unloading so that I can use a single state later on. How to do that? Same goes for offset travel loaded and offset travel empty. I want to have a single state named "Travel".

I do not want to achieve this by renaming the loading and unloading as Processing in the state table. Rather, I want to assign a state in it's behavior.


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You should consider to do it differently. Do not change states. Better you join states in a calculated table. This is one purpose of this statistical tool.

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Preet avatar image Preet commented ·
Thank you @Joerg Vogel . I will consider that option. However, for my learning and understanding, how would I achieve what I mentioned in the question? How would I change and reassign default loading and unloading states of a robot?
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States are result of internal events. They are hard coded. You can only change the presentation in a chart later. What you can do, is building a process flow, which watches the events of a robot and write results into tracked variables. But this is as efficient as doing the same in a calculated table to combine hard coded states.

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Preet avatar image Preet Joerg Vogel commented ·

Understood. Thank you!

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