Towards the Integrated Simulation and Programming of Palletizing Lines

Antonello Calò, Davide Buratti, Dario Lodi Rizzini, Stefano Caselli

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the advantages and the issues of simulation and visual programming of palletizing machines and, in general, palletizing lines, and we illustrate an integrated software tool suite that meets such requirements. The increasing complexity of lines and the variability of product formats require a common machine model for all the tools, together with the independence from visualization to allow software reuse and extendibility. Furthermore, the model should also be able to include palletizing line components external to the machine that are critical for performance and whose model is only partially known.

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in Harvard Style

Calò A., Buratti D., Lodi Rizzini D. and Caselli S. (2012). Towards the Integrated Simulation and Programming of Palletizing Lines . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-22-8, pages 377-382. DOI: 10.5220/0004120903770382


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco12,
author={Antonello Calò and Davide Buratti and Dario Lodi Rizzini and Stefano Caselli},
title={Towards the Integrated Simulation and Programming of Palletizing Lines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2012},
pages={377-382},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004120903770382},
isbn={978-989-8565-22-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Towards the Integrated Simulation and Programming of Palletizing Lines
SN - 978-989-8565-22-8
AU - Calò A.
AU - Buratti D.
AU - Lodi Rizzini D.
AU - Caselli S.
PY - 2012
SP - 377
EP - 382
DO - 10.5220/0004120903770382