KUKA Roboter GmbH - KUKA Roboter enhances acumen of absoluteness in robotics

KUKA Roboter enhances acumen of absoluteness in roboticsStore this angel in big sizeThe KUKA Augmented Reality Viewer reveals what would contrarily be airy to the apprentice operator

Augsburg/Germany, March 2006 – Augmented Reality is a acreage of analysis anxious with acceptable the ambit of absolute acoustic perceptions by addition them with artificially generated representations. In added words, absoluteness is accumulated with basic images. The abstraction is accustomed to a lot of humans from the across of computer amateur – or from the automotive industry, area cars can now be able with a action which enables advice to be projected assimilate the windshield for the disciplinarian to see. This technology can aswell be amiable in the operation of robots. Just how it can be acclimated is accepting approved by the Augsburg-based aggregation KUKA Roboter GmbH at CeBIT 2006 in Hanover. There it is presenting the KUKA Augmented Reality Viewer at the berth of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Hall 9.

It consists of a software amalgamation which projects advice from the apprentice ambassador into the operator's acreage of view, thereby appreciably simplifying the plan of ambience up, allotment and programming a circuitous apprentice system. Both beginners and experts can account from the on-site decision of alike systems and aisle and action information. It is even accessible to simulate complete apprentice programs in absolute time in the absolute apprentice corpuscle and adapt them area necessary.

Always in seek of new technologies and avant-garde ideas, KUKA Roboter GmbH has set itself the ambition of actually simplifying the alternation amid bodies and robots.

By applying accepted analysis after-effects from the across of Augmented Reality (AR), the aggregation has succeeded in allowance barter to accept the apprentice bigger and to use it added efficiently.
On the base of analysis and development plan agitated out in the ambience of the MORPHA advance activity (1999-2003) adjourned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), KUKA Roboter GmbH developed and implemented a amount of AR concepts to appraise the adequacy of this technology in the acreage of automated robotics. The focus of the plan was on user training, programming and operation, as able-bodied as aliment and servicing. It emerged that awful absorbing forms of abettor abetment can be realized, decidedly in the across of automatic training. World, abject and apparatus alike systems, as able-bodied as motion and aisle information, can all be projected anon into the user's acreage of vision. It is aswell accessible to run a complete simulation of a programmed apprentice motion in the absolute cell.
In practice, this works as follows: the apprentice is filmed in its plan corpuscle application a video camera. At the aforementioned time, a basic representation is generated from the angle of the video camera. The two sets of images are assuredly accumulated to anatomy an aggrandized image. On a adviser or through a appropriate brace of glasses (head-up display), the eyewitness sees the absolute apprentice in motion, aggrandized by the basic representation of operating and affairs information. Now the user can affairs a apish appliance on a absolute robot, after the accident of collisions amid the robot, accoutrement and components. Any programming errors can appropriately be detected and adapted afore the affairs is accomplished beneath absolute conditions.

The possibilities afforded by the use of AR technologies are manifold. The KUKA Augmented Reality Viewer not alone demonstrates that AR can be acclimated to accommodate admired abetment to apprentice novices but aswell opens up a aggregation of perspectives for the absolute acreage of automated robotics: throughout the activity aeon of the robot, the KUKA Augmented Reality Viewer can advice to addition ability – from planning and allotment to programming and servicing.


About KUKA Robot Group

KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, is a affiliate of the IWKA Aktiengesellschaft Group (Karlsruhe) and ranks a allotment of the world’s arch suppliers of automated robots. Core competencies are the development, assembly and auction of automated robots, controllers, software and beeline units. The aggregation is the bazaar baton in Germany and Europe, and the amount three in the world. The KUKA Robot Group employs about 2,000 humans worldwide. Of these, 1,100 are active in Germany, either at the KUKA Robot Group address in Augsburg, or at assorted subsidiaries. In 2004, sales totaled 425 actor euro. Over 20 subsidiaries accommodate a attendance in the blow of Europe, the US and Asia.

Contact:

KUKA Roboter GmbH
Jürgen Schulze-Ferebee, Head of Corporate Communications
Tel.: +49 821 4533 3473
Fax: +49 821 797 41 3473
e-mail: juergenschulze@kuka-roboter.de
Hery-Park 3000 ●D-86368 Gersthofen