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. 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 – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 3 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA Robotics Robots Controllers Software Applications Service Platforms KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 4 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA Robotics – Product range KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 5 www.kuka-robotics.com 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 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 6 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA Robotics – Automotive Assembly Coating & bonding Cutting Deburring Handling Machining Machine tending Measuring & testing Welding Polishing & grinding Palletizing & order picking Spot welding KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 7 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA Robotics – General Industry Aerospace Beverages Chemical & plastics Electronic products Entertainment Glass, ceramics & Food mineral products Logistics Medical Metal products Milling & Deburring Mining Print & paper Testing Wood & furniture KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 8 www.kuka-robotics.com 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 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 9 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA Robotics – Innovation leadership First First First First Electromagnetic Robot Long-Range Robot Entertainment Robot Light-Weight with six axes: „Famulus“ Heavy payload Robot Robot First First First Single-arm Robot Robot remote Co-Operative Robots without parallelogram diagnostics via Internet First First First First Robot Titan Real time PC based Integration of Safe (1,000 kg) Robot controller Soft PLC Robots 1973 1985 1996 1998 1999 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 10 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA innovations @ . Societal challenges www.automation-becomes-easy.com 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 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 11 www.kuka-robotics.com 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 Logistics Robots for Automotive Industry Robots for General Industry and Professional Services Today Future KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 12 www.kuka-robotics.com supported by cooperative research projects Production Assistant: work space sharing with worker, flexibly relocatable, safe, intuitive operation SMErobot PHRIENDS Entertainment Medicine Personal Robots DESIRE BRICS www.smerobot.org Robots as multipurpose tools for manufacturing SMEs CARE euRobotics Food Logistics Robots for Automotive Industry Robots for General Industry and Professional Services Today Future KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 13 www.kuka-robotics.com KUKA Products for Research & Education . KUKA Lightweight Robot . Fast Research Interface . youBot KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 14 www.kuka-robotics.com 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 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 15 www.kuka-robotics.com Innovative features of the KUKA Lightweight Robot gravity compensation kinematic redundancy programmable damping programmable stiffness KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 16 www.kuka-robotics.com Fast Research Interface (FRI) purpose: . to remotely control the LWR . to enable researchers to combine their own FRI 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 KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 17 www.kuka-robotics.com youBot – Desktop Mobile Manipulator for Education and Research youBot arm & gripper youBot platform . 5 axes . 4 KUKA omniWheels . 2-finger gripper . length: 580 mm . height: 655 mm . width: 360 mm . mass: 7 kg . weight: 20 kg . payload: 0.5 kg . payload: 20 kg . magnesium cast . steel structure . 24 Volts . 24 Volts youBot System with 1 arm youBot system with 2 arms KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 18 www.kuka-robotics.com 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 – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 19 www.kuka-robotics.com 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. KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 20 www.kuka-robotics.com 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 – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 21 www.kuka-robotics.com 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. KUKA – from Industrial to Service Robotics KUKA Roboter GmbH | Miquel López | 27.06.2014 | Page 22 www.kuka-robotics.com 1st BRICS Research Camp . Task: . identify best practice algorithms, e.g.: Mobile Manipulation incl. inverse kinematics,3D Perception and Modelling, SLAM, … . Discuss