twincat-virtualwasher
Simulating a Washing Machine System with TwinCAT PLC Programming 🧼
Science Score: 44.0%
This score indicates how likely this project is to be science-related based on various indicators:
-
✓CITATION.cff file
Found CITATION.cff file -
✓codemeta.json file
Found codemeta.json file -
✓.zenodo.json file
Found .zenodo.json file -
○DOI references
-
○Academic publication links
-
○Committers with academic emails
-
○Institutional organization owner
-
○JOSS paper metadata
-
○Scientific vocabulary similarity
Low similarity (12.3%) to scientific vocabulary
Keywords
Repository
Simulating a Washing Machine System with TwinCAT PLC Programming 🧼
Statistics
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 0
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
Simulating a Washing Machine System with TwinCAT PLC Programming 🧼
This repository contains a simulation project for a Washing Machine System, developed within the TwinCAT environment as part of a master's course assignment at University West. The assignment involves developing the control logic for specific functions of a washing machine, with the PLCSim program, including the Visualization.TcVIS, provided by the university. The designed washing machine system includes the following functionalities:
- System Activation and Deactivation: The washing machine is turned on by rotating the switch to the START position. The process can be stopped at any time by rotating the switch to the STOP position.
- Water Filling: The user can select the desired water filling level, either LEVEL2 (NORM) or LEVEL3 (HIGH), by turning the LEVEL rotary switch.
- Temperature Control: Once the water reaches the selected level, the HEATER operates until the CURRENT TEMP matches the SET TEMP on the
Visualization.TcVIS. The heater dynamically adjusts to keep the CURRENT TEMP within the TEMP OK range. - Washing Cycle: When the desired temperature is reached, the washing machine begins the washing cycle by spinning the washer cylinder forward for 5 seconds and then backward for another 5 seconds.
- Heater Failure: If the heater fails, the washing machine stops and will not resume until the temperature is back within the appropriate range.
- Water Draining: When the washing cycle ends, the machine drains all the water until the drum is empty.
- Cycle Completion and Restart: Upon completing a cycle, the program waits for user input. If the PULS button is pressed, the cycle repeats continuously until the button is released.
| Washer |
|-----|
| |
Setup Instructions
Download and Install: TwinCAT 3 download | eXtended Automation Engineering (XAE)
Clone the repository: ```sh git clone https://github.com/Dalageo/TwinCAT-VirtualWasher.git
Navigate to the cloned directory and execute the 'TwinCAT Virtual Washer.sln' solution file.
Navigate to TwinCAT directory and execute Start.bat: ```sh C:/TwinCAT/3.1/Runtimes/UmRT_Default/Start.bat
Change the Target System in TwinCAT to UmRT_Default.
Activate Configuration.
Login and Start both 'PLCSim' and 'PLCStudent'.
Contributions
This project was part of a master course assignment at University West, which provided the initial codebase for PLCSim. Special thanks to the professors at University West who contributed to its development.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It was chosen to prevent commercial use and to promote free access and open collaboration, ensuring any adaptations remain freely available to everyone.
Citation
```bibtex @software{DalageorgosTwinCAT-VirtualWasher2024, author = {Dalageorgos, Konstantinos}, license = {CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0}, month = jul, title = {{TwinCAT-VirtualWasher}}, url = {https://github.com/Dalageo/TwinCAT-VirtualWasher}, version = {1.0.0}, year = {2024} }
Owner
- Login: Dalageo
- Kind: user
- Repositories: 1
- Profile: https://github.com/Dalageo
Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If this project was helpful, please cite it as below."
title: "TwinCAT-VirtualWasher"
authors:
- family-names: "Dalageorgos"
given-names: "Konstantinos"
version: "1.0.0"
date-released: "2024-07-14"
repository-code: "https://github.com/Dalageo/TwinCAT-VirtualWasher"
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
GitHub Events
Total
- Watch event: 4
- Push event: 1
Last Year
- Watch event: 4
- Push event: 1
Committers
Last synced: 8 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Konstantinos Dalageorgos | k****s@g****m | 2 |
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 8 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 0
- Total pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Total issue authors: 0
- Total pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 0
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 0
- Pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Issue authors: 0
- Pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 0
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0