순로구분기 기구부 제어를 위한 통신 시스템 설계에 관한 연구

A Study on the Design of Communication System to control Mechanical Part of a Sequence Sorter

This paper describes the communication system of sequencing sorter. Generally sequencing sorter is a machine that sorts mails by delivery order. And designed sequencing sorter is composed of 5 physical modules. So, it is necessary to communicate with each module and to control this communication. A computer called Machine Management Computer, controls this. This paper is about the communication system with MMC and module controllers. This is PC-based, asynchronous full-duplex 4-wire serial systems. 3 protocol layers are presented and stop-and-wait flow control is adopted. Because designed sequencing sorter has to be operated high speed about 27,000 letters per hour, we analyzed the network traffic in the worst case. So, we could find that the communication system has to use above 115,200bps speed.