KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics Dr. Johannes Kurth Head of Research & Predevelopment Dr. Tim Guhl Project Manager Cooperative Research Projects KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany Sr. Miquel López KUKA Robots Ibérica, S. A.
Director Técnico
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
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KUKA Robotics
Software
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Robots
Controllers
Applications
Service
Platforms
KUKA Robotics – Product range
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KUKA Robotics – Automotive
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
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KUKA Robotics – Automotive Assembly
Coating & bonding
Cutting
Deburring
Handling
Machining
Machine tending
Measuring & testing
Welding
Polishing & grinding
Palletizing & order picking
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Spot welding
KUKA Robotics – General Industry
Aerospace
Beverages
Chemical & plastics
Food
Glass, ceramics & mineral products
Logistics
Milling & Deburring
Mining
Print & paper
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Electronic products
Medical
Testing
Entertainment
Metal products
Wood & furniture
KUKA – Worldwide Presence
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
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KUKA Robotics – Innovation leadership
First
First
Electromagnetic Robot with six axes: „Famulus“
First
Long-Range Robot Heavy payload Robot
First
Robot remote diagnostics via Internet
First
First
Real time PC based Robot controller
1973 1985 1996
Integration of Soft PLC
1998 1999 2000
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Entertainment Robot
Light-Weight Robot
First
First
Single-arm Robot without parallelogram
First
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Co-Operative Robots
First Safe Robots
2003 2004 2005
First Robot Titan (1,000 kg)
2006 2007
KUKA innovations @ Societal challenges business opportunities for KUKA
www.automation-becomes-easy.com
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 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 11
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KUKA on the way from Industrial to Service Robotics Production Assistant: work space sharing with worker, flexibly relocatable, safe, intuitive operation
Entertainment
Medicine Personal Robots www.smerobot.org
Robots as multipurpose tools for manufacturing SMEs
Food Robots for Automotive Industry
Logistics
Robots for General Industry and Professional Services
Today
Future
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supported by cooperative research projects Production Assistant: work space sharing with worker, flexibly relocatable, safe, intuitive operation
SMErobot
Entertainment
PHRIENDS
Medicine Personal Robots
DESIRE
BRICS
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Robots as multipurpose tools for manufacturing SMEs
CARE Food Robots for Automotive Industry
euRobotics
Logistics
Robots for General Industry and Professional Services
Today
Future
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KUKA Products for Research & Education
KUKA Lightweight Robot Fast Research Interface youBot
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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 axis K = Rotation around transverse axis
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Innovative features of the KUKA Lightweight Robot
gravity compensation
kinematic redundancy
programmable damping
programmable stiffness
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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
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FRI
youBot – Desktop Mobile Manipulator for Education and Research youBot arm & gripper
youBot platform
youBot System with 1 arm
5 axes 2-finger gripper height: 655 mm mass: 7 kg payload: 0.5 kg magnesium cast 24 Volts
youBot system with 2 arms
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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 – Submillimeter accuracy required Standard SafeRDC – Safe operation Unprecedented accessibility
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KUKA Medical Robots – Med AX Application Innovative angiography and cardiology system 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 software Make sure everybody has a lot of fun and in the end also has a scientific benefit.
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Explanation of robot hardware – introduction into group work – 2010-10-25
2 cooperating LWRs (with OROCOS and FRI)
division into groups
Care-o-Bot with KUKA LWR
planning the group work
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5 youBots with open interfaces (open source controller via EtherCAT)
detailed introduction
Preliminary Results
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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
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KUKA - DLR
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Thank you for your attention! Questions?
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