MOBILE PENDANT FOR GANTRY SYSTEMS

Authors

  • Rucha Sandeep Joshi Electronics and Telecommunications departmentMarathwada Mitra Mandal’s college of engineering , Karvenagar , Pune
  • Kajal Awale Electronics and Telecommunications departmentMarathwada Mitra Mandal’s college of engineering , Karvenagar , Pune
  • Anagha Kunte Electronics and Telecommunications departmentMarathwada Mitra Mandal’s college of engineering , Karvenagar , Pune

Keywords:

Gantry System, Mobile Pendant for Gantry System

Abstract

Mobile Pendant for Gantry System is based on controlling the actions of Gantry systems. In gantry system, since the area covered is very large, it is difficult to perform manual action / teaching, using HMI (Human Machine Interface) mounted on main control panel. So the Handheld pendant has been developed for performing manual actions & teaching. The device is equipped with graphic LCD display to show the texts associated with manual actions to be performed.Normally these kind of Mobile pendants are interfaced with Main system using digital I/Os in 24VDC domain. This puts restrictions such as usage of multi-core cable from pendant to gantry system control panel (which is expensive & difficult to handle). Axes positions, alarms getting generated in the system (while teaching or performing manual actions of the gantry) also cannot be displayed. Toovercome all the above mentioned problems,

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Published

2021-03-27

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