kuka – from industrial to service robotics

KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics

Dr. Johannes Kurth Head of Research & PredevelopmentDr. Tim Guhl Project Manager Cooperative Research Projects

KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany

Sr. Miquel López Director TécnicoKUKA Robots Ibérica, S. A.

www.kuka-robotics.comKUKA – from Industrial to Service RoboticsKUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 |

Overview

Introduction KUKA Roboter GmbH Industrial Robots and their applications

Innovation leadership KUKA on the way from Industrial to Service Robotics Strategy

KUKA Products for Research & Education KUKA Lightweight Robot + FRI youBot Medical Robots

KUKA Products for Entertainment Robocoaster

Summary and conclusions


KUKA Robotics

Robots Controllers

Software PlatformsApplications Service


KUKA Robotics – Product range


Leading supplier to the Automotive industry

Long-standing customer relationships

Ability to customize standard products

Joint solution developments

Innovation leadership

Market leadership

Technological innovation and cost reduction drive customer demand

KUKA Robotics – Automotive


DeburringCutting

Handling Machine tending Measuring & testing

Palletizing & order picking

Coating & bonding

Machining

Polishing & grindingWelding Spot welding

Assembly

KUKA Robotics – Automotive


Chemical & plastics

Medical Metal products

Testing

Entertainment

Food

Wood & furniturePrint & paper

Logistics

Electronic productsAerospace

MiningMilling & Deburring

Beverages

Glass, ceramics & mineral products

KUKA Robotics – General Industry


KUKA Roboter GmbH, Germany KUKA Automatisme + Robotique S.A.S., France KUKA Roboter Italia S.p.A., Italy KUKA Roboter Schweiz AG, Switzerland KUKA Robotics Hungária Ipari Kft., Hungary KUKA Roboter do Brasil Ltda., Brasil KUKA de Méxiko S. de R.L. de C.V., Mexiko KUKA Robotics Corp., USA KUKA Robot Automation Korea Co. Ltd., Korea KUKA Robot Automation Taiwan Co. Ltd.., Taiwan KUKA Robot Automation Sdn. Bhd. South East Asia

Regional Office, Malaysia KUKA Robot Automation (M) Sdn. Bhd., Thailand KUKA Roboter GmbH Österreich, Austria KUKA Sistemas de Automatización, Portugal KUKA Robots IBÉRICA, S.A., Spain KUKA Automatisering + Robots N.V., Belgium KUKA Flexible Manufacturing Systems (Shanghai)

Co. Ltd., China KUKA Sveiseanlegg + Roboter, Norway KUKA Svetsanläggningar + Robotar AB, Sweden KUKA Automation + Robotics, United Kingdom KUKA Robotics (India) Private Limited KUKA Robotics Japan KUKA Robotics Rus OOO, Russia

Agencies in: Argentina, Australia, Chile and South Africa

KUKA – Worldwide Presence


KUKA Robotics – Innovation leadership

Electromagnetic Robot with six axes: „Famulus“

1973

Single-arm Robot without parallelogram

1985

FirstReal time PC basedRobot controller

1996

Entertainment Robot

2003

Co-OperativeRobots

2004

SafeRobots

2005

Robot remotediagnostics via Internet

1999

Integration of Soft PLC

20001998

Long-Range RobotHeavy payload Robot

2006

Light-WeightRobot

Robot Titan (1,000 kg)

2007

FirstFirst

First First First

First

First

First First

First


KUKA innovations @

Societal challenges business opportunities for KUKA

New product generation: new family of robot arms: QUANTEC series new robot controller: KRC4 new tech pendant: smartPAD new engineering tool: KUKA Work.Visual

Automation becomes easy Easy to plan. Easy to integrate. Easy to operate. Easy to maintain. Easy to adapt to specific requirements. New dimension of flexibility for manufacturing companies.

Automation becomes green Automation becomes safe

www.automation-becomes-easy.com


KUKA on the way from Industrial to Service Robotics

Robots for Automotive Industry

Today Future

Robots as multipurpose tools for manufacturing

SMEs

Production Assistant: work space sharing with worker, flexibly relocatable, safe, intuitive operation

Medicine

Logistics

Entertainment

Food

Robots for General Industry and Professional Services

www.smerobot.org

PersonalRobots


Production Assistant: work space sharing with worker, flexibly relocatable, safe, intuitive operation

supported by cooperative research projects

Robots for Automotive Industry

Today Future

Robots as multipurpose tools for manufacturing

SMEs

Medicine

Logistics

Entertainment

Food

Robots for General Industry and Professional Services

www.smerobot.org

PersonalRobots

DESIRE

SMErobot PHRIENDS

BRICS

CARE euRobotics


KUKA Products for Research & Education

KUKA Lightweight Robot Fast Research Interface youBot


Technical data – Mechanics LWR4+

Payload: 7 kg

Weight: 16 kg

Max. joint velocity: 112.5°/s - 180°/s

Number of axes: 7 (R* – K* – R – K – R – K – R)

Reach: vertical: 1100 mm / horizontal: 790 mm

Supply: 48 V DC internal, 115/230 V AC external with automatic switch

Repeatability: ± 0.05 mm

Mounting position: floor, wall, ceiling

* R = Rotation around longitudinal axisK = Rotation around transverse axis


Innovative features of the KUKA Lightweight Robot

gravity compensation kinematic redundancy

programmable damping programmable stiffness


Fast Research Interface (FRI)

purpose: to remotely control the LWR to enable researchers to combine their own

control algorithms and peripherals with the unique features of the LWR(researchers can focus on their research!) Cyclic timeframe: range 1 - 100 ms

examples: DLR: connect LWR to haptic input device TUM: mobile dual handed manipulation KUL: peer-to-peer haptics

FRI


youBot – Desktop Mobile Manipulator for Education and Research

youBot arm & gripper youBot platform

youBot System with 1 arm youBot system with 2 arms

5 axes 2-finger gripper height: 655 mm mass: 7 kg payload: 0.5 kg magnesium cast 24 Volts

4 KUKA omniWheels length: 580 mm width: 360 mm weight: 20 kg payload: 20 kg steel structure 24 Volts


KUKA Medical Robots

Development KUKA Roboter GmbH / Siemens AG Medical Solutions

Absolute positioning KUKA robot – Sub-millimeter accuracy required

Standard SafeRDC – Safe operation

Unprecedented accessibility


KUKA Medical Robots – Med AX Application

Innovative angiography and cardiologysystem Angiography is a medical imaging technique

in which an X-ray picture is taken to visualize the inner opening of blood filled structures, including arteries, veins and the heart chambers. The Robot holds the C-arm incl. tube,

collimator and detector and moves it according to the control commands.


KUKA Medical Robots – Med PT Application

Particle Therapy Handling of C-Arc & Patient

Positioning by robots Particle therapy is a form of

external beam radiotherapy using beams of protons and carbon ionics The robot guides a patient couch

relatively to an particle beam. The couch can be positioned in relation to the acquired X-ray-data coordinates.


KUKA Medical Robots – Accuray Cyberknife

Sub-millimeter accuracy requirements of full body radiosurgery

System offers unprecedented accessibility to tumors anywhere in the body

The KUKA robot guides a linac to treat tumours with X-Ray beam. The linac can be positioned highly flexible by the robot.

Respiratory guided robot movements guaranties lower dose application.


1st BRICS Research Camp

Task: identify best practice algorithms, e.g.:

Mobile Manipulation incl. inverse kinematics,3D Perception and Modelling, SLAM, …Discuss re-use and openness of

robotics softwareMake sure everybody has a lot of fun

and in the end also has a scientific benefit.


Explanation of robot hardware – introduction into group work – 2010-10-25

2 cooperating LWRs(with OROCOS and FRI)

Care-o-Bot withKUKA LWR

5 youBots with open interfaces(open source controller via EtherCAT)

division into groups planning the group work detailed introduction


Preliminary Results


Summary and conclusions

KUKA Roboter is a well known supplier of Industrial Robots Innovation leadership is KUKA’s strategy for success Research & Predevelopment are very important for KUKA KUKA is working closely together with leading Universities

worldwide; bilateral and in cooperative research projects KUKA offers interesting products for research & education lightweight robots with Fast Research Interface youBot …

KUKA is always interested in getting to know highly qualified engineers like yourselves Internships (Practica, Bachelor & Master thesis) Full time positions


KUKA - DLR


Thank you for your attention!

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