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
Handling
Machining
Machine tending
Welding
Polishing & grinding
Palletizing & order picking
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Deburring
Measuring & testing
Spot welding
KUKA Robotics – General Industry
Aerospace
Beverages
Food
Glass, ceramics &
mineral products
Milling & Deburring
Mining
Chemical & plastics
Logistics
Print & paper
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Electronic products
Medical
Testing
Entertainment
Metal products
Wood & furniture
KUKA – Worldwide Presence
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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
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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
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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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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
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youBot System with 1 arm
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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:
BRICS - Best Practice in Robotics
 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.
1st BRICS Research Camp on Mobile Manipulation
Malaga, Costa de Sol, Spain
24 - 29 October 2010
The top 20 robotics Ph.D. students worldwide with a solid background in mobile
manipulation are invited to gather for one week in a stimulating environment
to explore, revise and improve what are considered the best practice algorithms
in mobile manipulation today. The intended outcome of the research camp is
an open source library of refactored and harmonized mobile manipulation
algorithms.
We will provide
• an inspiring working environment
• travel grants to get to this inspiring working environment:
1250 € for European students, 2000 € for international students
• the latest and coolest pieces of robot hardware in mobile manipulation,
especially for education and research in mobile manipulation
• a DVD with an initial set of software modules for mobile manipulation and
3D perception and modelling
• a fast Internet access
• two typical mobile manipulation tasks/scenarios
We expect in return
• a competitive solution to the given tasks either using the provided
or self-developed algorithms for mobile manipulation demonstrated
in two competitions on the last day of the research camp
• critical feedback and revisions of the provided hardware and software
Applications should include
• CV with publication list
• letters of reference from two different faculties
and should be sent to:
Thilo Zimmermann
Gesellschaft für Produktionssysteme GPS
Nobelstr. 12
D-70569 Stuttgart
GERMANY
email: zimmermann@gps-stuttgart.de
Schedule
June 15, 2010
July 15, 2010
Submission of applications
Notification of acceptance or rejection
Acknowledgement
This activity is supported by the European Commission ICT Challenge 2 under grant agreement no. 231940
www.best-of-robotics.org
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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
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 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?
JohannesKurth@kuka-roboter.de
TimGuhl@kuka-roboter.de
miquel.lopez@kuka-e.com
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