Abstract:

The automatic cigarette sorting system is a significant application of industrial control in tobacco logistics. In this paper, a new conception of vir tual queue container is proposed, a mathematical model of the automatic cigarette sorting algorithm is constructed and the automatic cigarette sorting p rocess is validated on LabVIEW. It is a kind of open-loop control algorithm which is easy-to-achieve, easy-to-operate and easy-to-implement on industria  l PLCs. The correctness and feasibility of the algorithm are verified through simulation.

Key words: tobacco logistics, automatic sorting, virtual queue containers, LabVIEW