1. Startfolie mit Logo

2. 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 Director Técnico
KUKA Robots Ibérica, S. A.
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3. Innovation leadership
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

4. KUKA Robotics Robots Controllers Software Applications Service
Platforms

5. KUKA Robotics – Product range

6. Leading supplier to the Automotive industry
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

7. KUKA Robotics – Automotive
Assembly
Coating & bonding
Cutting
Deburring
Handling
Machining
Machine tending
Measuring & testing
Welding
Polishing & grinding
Palletizing & order picking
Spot welding

8. KUKA Robotics – General Industry
Aerospace
Beverages
Chemical & plastics
Electronic products
Entertainment
Glass, ceramics &
mineral products
Food
Logistics
Medical
Metal products
Milling & Deburring
Mining
Print & paper
Testing
Wood & furniture

9. 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
Agencies in: Argentina, Australia, Chile and South Africa

10. KUKA Robotics – Innovation leadership
First
First
First
First
Electromagnetic Robot
with six axes: „Famulus“
Long-Range Robot
Heavy payload Robot
Entertainment Robot
Light-Weight
Robot
First
First
First
Single-arm Robot
without parallelogram
Co-Operative
Robots
Robot remote
diagnostics via Internet
First
First
First
First
Robot Titan (1,000 kg)
Real time PC based
Robot controller
Integration of
Soft PLC
Safe
Robots
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11. Societal challenges  business opportunities for KUKA
KUKA
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

12. KUKA on the way from Industrial to Service Robotics
Production Assistant: work space sharing with worker, flexibly relocatable, safe, intuitive operation
Medicine
Logistics
Entertainment
Food
Robots for General Industry and Professional Services
Personal Robots
Robots as multipurpose tools for manufacturing SMEs
Robots for Automotive Industry
Today Future

13. KUKA Products for Research & Education
KUKA Lightweight Robot
Fast Research Interface
youBot 14

14. Technical data – Mechanics LWR4+
Payload: 7 kg
Weight: 16 kg
Max. joint velocity: °/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, /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 15

15. Innovative features of the KUKA Lightweight Robot
gravity compensation
kinematic redundancy
programmable damping
programmable stiffness

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

17. youBot – Desktop Mobile Manipulator for Education and Research
youBot arm & gripper
youBot platform
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
youBot System with 1 arm
youBot system with 2 arms

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. Explanation of robot hardware – introduction into group work – 2010-10-25
2 cooperating LWRs (with OROCOS and FRI)
Care-o-Bot with KUKA LWR
5 youBots with open interfaces (open source controller via EtherCAT)
division into groups
planning the group work
detailed introduction

24. Preliminary Results

25. 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

26. KUKA - DLR

27. Thank you for your attention!
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