The Final Project – Programming a Simulated Robot

Congratulations – you have made it to the final chapter! This chapter is going to be the conclusion of our exploration into the basics of PLC and Structured Text programming. This chapter is going to be unique compared to the rest of the book in that it will be a comprehensive project that will draw on the main topics that were previously explored throughout this book. This means that a solid understanding of the rest of the book is going to be necessary to follow along. So, if you skipped to the end, you need to go back and explore the rest of the book before tackling this project.

This project is going to explore programming a simulated robot. In modern automation, more and more robots are being designed to interface directly with PLCs. This project is going to be a very simple programming scenario that one could face in the real world. Keep in mind that the code we build could be massaged enough to control an actual...