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Traffic Lights Lab Using Mitsubishi PLC

This document describes a laboratory experiment to program a PLC to control a traffic light system with pedestrian interrupt. The objectives are to incorporate time sequences, use timers and counters, and use master control instructions. The task is to create a ladder logic program for an automatic traffic light with a pedestrian crossing button that can interrupt the light sequence. Two programs are designed - one without using master control and one using master control instructions. Both programs are tested on a PLC trainer and their instruction lists are produced.

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Traffic Lights Lab Using Mitsubishi PLC

This document describes a laboratory experiment to program a PLC to control a traffic light system with pedestrian interrupt. The objectives are to incorporate time sequences, use timers and counters, and use master control instructions. The task is to create a ladder logic program for an automatic traffic light with a pedestrian crossing button that can interrupt the light sequence. Two programs are designed - one without using master control and one using master control instructions. Both programs are tested on a PLC trainer and their instruction lists are produced.

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University M'hamed Bougera - Boumerdas -

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering


IGEE(ex-INELEC )

Made By: Group: 3


 Ichira Sofiane
 Kadri Mehdi
 Melouk Mohammed Redouan

LABORATORY EXPERIMENT # 04
Sequential Control : TRAFFIC
LIGHTS

M02/EE452 : Industrial Automation lab

Teacher : Done on :
Mr. Ouadi 19/04/2022

Academic year : 2021/2022


Lab objectives:
The objectives of this lab experiment are:
 Incorporate time sequences in PLC programs.
 Use timers and counters.
 Use the master control and the master control reset instruction.
 Use the monitoring mode for trouble shooting.

Task 1: priority determination:


Description of the problem:
In this lab we create a program that will control an automatic traffic light system
as will be specified below, it must also allow the pedestrians to interrupt the
sequence in a specific manner to allow them to cross the street .Nine outputs
are required. And since the number of outputs on our Mitsubishi fx0 is limited
some of the nine must be combined as illustrated in input/output assignments
shown in the following table.
Input/output ref Description and function
X0 Input ON/OFF SWITCH FOR SYSTEM
X6 Input PEDESTRIAN CROSSING BUTTON
Y0 Output RED 1 (EAST/WEST)&GREEN PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
Y1 Output RED 2 (NORTH/SOUTH)
Y2 Output GREEN 1 (EAST/WEST)/RED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
Y3 Output GREEN 2(NORTH/SOUTH)
Y4 Output AMBER 1 & 2/RED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
Y5 Output RED WAIT PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

This task illustrates the value of creating a chart which tells us at a glance
whether an output is ON or OFF at any point in the sequence. A chart is also of
great assistance to the programmer in de-bugging a program or faultfinding once
the program has been installed.
The traffic light works on a continuous cycle, allowing the traffic to flow for a set
of time in each direction .The only interruption being when the pedestrian
crossing is in use .The times shown at each step indicate how long those outputs
will remain ON.
The chart below shows the automatic sequence of lights interrupted by a
pedestrian pushing a button (X6).
Sequence RED1 AMBER 1 GREEN 1 RED 2 AMBER2 GREEN2 RED GREEN RED
/Time E/W E/W E/W N/S N/S N/S CROSSIN CROSSIN WAI
G G T
1 3 sec √ √ √
2 3 sec √ √ √ √ √ Push √
3 3 sec √ √ √ √
4 3 sec √ √ √ √
5 0.1 sec √ √ √
6 5 sec √ √ √
1 3 sec √ √ √
2 3 sec √ √ √ √ √
Y0 Y4 Y2 Y1 Y4 Y4 Y2+Y4 Y0 Y5

LAB WORK:
We design two LADDER program solutions and transfer each one in turn to our
MINI_PLC trainer and test them to operate as the described specifications. The
first program solution should not use the MC and MCR instructions, while the
second program use them. Then for each program we produce its instruction list.
We implemented the following ladder program:

This part represents the normal sequence timing

This part is for output assignement:


The last part is for the pedestrian crossing interruption:

The instruction list:


Now using master control technique, everything is the same except for this
part:

The instruction list:


Conclusion:
In this lab, we were able to increase our ladder programming skills
through implementing different methods and techniques to manipulate the
traffic lights, the most important one been incorporating time sequences.

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