Smart Robot Production uses decider combinators to control when bots are introduced into the network
Important note: It uses logistics bots to move engines, so it does need a few in the network to get started. You can grab some red engines from the red provider chest and manually add them to the robot frame assemblers to seed the process. Also, don't forget to extend your logistics network to include the 2 roboports at the end of the line!
Be default, it builds 4 stacks of each type of robot, then moves them into the logistics network when there's is a shortage of available bots, until preset maximums are reached. When conditions are met to add robots into the network, a quiet alarm is sounded, and warning icons are displayed.
The default rules are:
- Add construction bots if there are fewer than 1,000 in the network, and less than 100 are available
( T < 1,000 and Z < 100 ) - Add logistics bots if there are fewer than 2,000 in the network, and less than 100 are available
( Y < 2,000 and X <100 )
For reference, these values are exported by Roboports
- X = Available logistics bots
- Y = Total Logistic Bots
- Z = Available construction bots
- T = Total construction bots