Design Guidelines
Transport System Design
QuickStick HT User Manual 97
Rockwell Automation Publication MMI-UM007F-EN-P - September 2020
Track_location
Purpose
Identifies the motor position in the specified path. Switches are represented as two motors.
The motors in a Diverge Node are always the first motors on each path and the motors in a
Merge Node are always the last motors on each path.
Syntax
<Track_location>Location</Track_location>
Attributes
None
Parent Tag
<Motor>
Contents
Location – The location is identified as PnMn. Where Pn is the path number and Mn is the
location of the motor in the path.
Validation
Node controller requirements for startup and initialization:
• Must not contain any child tags.
• Must not contain a value that is equal to another <Track_location> tag.
Example
Motor:
<!-- PATH 3 -->
<Track_location>P3M2</Track_location>
Switch (Diverge), straight section of switch determines the path that switch is identified on:
<!-- PATH 2 -->
<Track_location>P2M1</Track_location>
<Track_location>P3M1</Track_location>
Switch (Merge), straight section of switch determines the path that switch is identified on:
<!-- PATH 2 -->
<Track_location>P2M3</Track_location>
<Track_location>P3M5</Track_location>