Abstract:As present catering collecting automation level is low, a notion of automated catering collecting assembly line is put forward and a catering collection robot is designed. After analyzing the whole structure and motion requirements, a further control system for catering collecting robot based on PLC is designed. It is mainly divided into serving tray rotating module, filtering module, tableware conveying module, serving tray stacking module and residues collecting module. Considering different working process and control requirements between modules, this paper applied Siemens S7-200 as the core of control system, finished hardware and software design, made programs and debugged for each module, and achieved accurate position control, which meets actual control requirements and can collect serving tray automatically.