KUKA Industrial Robot System Introduction, KUKA Robot Co., Ltd. was founded in 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and is one of the world's leading industrial robot manufacturers. KUKA Robotics has more than 20 subsidiaries worldwide, most of which are sales and service centers, including United States, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India and most European countries. The company name kuka is a combination of the four initials of Keller und Knappich Augsburg and is a registered trademark for all KUKA products.
In January 2017, Midea Group, a Chinese home appliance company, successfully acquired a 94.55% stake in Germany robotics company KUKA.
The KUKA robot system consists of two parts: hardware and software, and the following figure shows the composition of the KUKA robot system.
In 1996, KUKA began to produce robots based on the PC robot control system. Until now, the control system of the KUKA robot is still based on the PC and Windows operating system of Microsoft Corporation of United States. If the US-China trade conflict continues to escalate, this could become a potentially deadly threat to KUKA robots.
The KSS (KUKA System Software) of the KRC4 system runs in the robot control cabinet and undertakes all the fundamental functions required by the industrial robot according to the Windows Embedded Standard 7 V4.x operating system, such as track design, I/O processing, data and document management, process data package, etc.
The operation interface of the kuka system software is called KUKA smart HMI (the operation interface of the smart KUKA system software can perform the following operations on the smart PAD of the KUKA robot teaching device: handling users, online form programming, KRL language programming, program editing, checking robot information, checking I/O signal status, forcing the output of DO signals, configuring robot system parameters, etc.).
For the KUKA robot control system, there are two types of USB flash drives that can be ordered. One is a common USB flash drive loaded with KUKA Robot Skill Specification, Workvisual software installation package, and part clarification manual without startup and guidance functions; The other is a system USB flash drive used to generate and rehabilitate system images for KUKA robots. At present, most of the KUKA robot skill manuals and other materials are provided to users in the form of virtual discs, rather than being loaded on USB sticks. Therefore, when skilled personnel mention KUKAu disk, they basically refer to the USB disk of the KUKA system. The picture below is a physical photo of these two USB sticks.
The English name of the USB flash drive of the KUKA system is KUKA. Rehab USB, official order number 00-220-397. It is a USB flash drive with boot function, and it can also be understood that the boot disk of the Windows operating system installed by the customer in the computer store, only this USB flash drive stores the WindowsEmbedded 7 operating system of the embedded control system, not win7 or win10 system, and the Windows Embedded 7 image stored in the USB flash drive of the library card system is now pre-installed with the library card system software.
For more information on how to use the USB flash drive of the KUKA system to generate and restore the operation method of the KUKA robot control system, readers can refer to the official KUKA skills manual, which shows the cover of a skill reference manual of the USB flash drive of the KUKA system.
Since if you get a KUKA USB flash drive, a reference manual is not difficult for you, and if you don't have a KUKA USB flash drive, this manual is of no value to you.
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