How to have single state for loading and unloading?

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Preet asked Feb 27 2023 at 11:23 PM Preet commented Mar 01 2023 at 5:11 PM

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.

demo_model.fsm

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FlexSim 23.0.2

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Answer 1 · 2023-02-28T09:39:34Z

Joerg Vogel answered Feb 28 2023 at 9:39 AM Preet commented Mar 01 2023 at 5:11 PM

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 commented · Mar 01 2023 at 4:24 PM

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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Joerg Vogel Preet commented · Mar 01 2023 at 5:02 PM

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 Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 01 2023 at 5:11 PM

Understood. Thank you!

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