March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 35m
English
Figure 3.4 shows a miniature factory for which we want to design a command language. The heart of the factory is a track robot, a machine that can move forward and backward along a track. The robot can pick up material from conveyor belts and place the material on other conveyors. The robot transports material in metal containers called “carriers.” The basic flow of the factory has the robot pick and place carriers so that they go through two processing machines and arrive at an output conveyor. Carriers have bar code labels that the robot is able to scan, letting the robot ascertain the identity of a carrier and arrive at a machine's output.
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