KUKA Roboter GmbH - KUKA Roboter GmbH receives addition cost for acumen solution

Innovation cost for acumen solutionStore this angel in big sizeKUKA Roboter is awarded additional abode in the “Innovation cost for logistics” competition

Munich, March 2006 – “Intralogistics - today - tomorrow – the future” was the adage of the 15th German Materials Flow Convention (MFK), captivated on 2 and 3 March 2006 at the Technical University in Munich-Garching. KUKA Roboter GmbH aswell had today and tomorrow in apperception if they developed an avant-garde optical sensor arrangement to acquiesce automated robots to be acclimated in intralogistics. With this arrangement they were awarded additional abode in the “Innovation cost for logistics” of the VDI Society for Materials Handling, Materials Flow and Logistics Engineering (VDI-FML), which they accustomed in the advance of the convention. Visitors to the assemblage could see for themselves a affirmation of the KUKA acumen solution, because the bazaar arch supplier of automated robots was announcement its affirmation corpuscle appropriate there.

It’s a continued time back automated robots were to be begin alone on car accumulation lines. In contempo years they accept developed all-round adjustable abilities, extending even to “feeling” and “seeing”. These capabilities are a abundant advice if alive in warehouses of the acumen industry. Innumerable articles in abounding altered shapes and sizes accept to be handled there. Until now this was a back-breaking job for the humans who knew the area and actualization of the goods; alone they could assemblage and amalgamate the crates of drinks and pallets of products.
KUKA Roboter GmbH has developed a sensor arrangement which gives the apprentice absolutely the capabilities bare to become a quick, adjustable and reliable storeman. In so accomplishing it can handle an about absolute ambit of products. Force-torque sensors and angel acceptance systems admittance the apprentice to acknowledge flexibly to the bearings about it. It can admit the position and acclimatization of alone bales aural a band on a pallet. It does this application a laser axle with which it scans the apparent of the bassinet layer.
A CCD camera allows a three-dimensional acme contour to be generated. From this the action computer can again account a basic gray-scale image, acceptance the apprentice in about-face to ascertain the edges and shapes of the altar to be best up. With a acceptable gripper arrangement the bales can be absorbed either alone or in multiples. The sensor arrangement abstracts are again anesthetized to a action software system, which directs the apprentice and its gripper in accordance with the aggregate abstracts and the accepted chump order.
The arrangement permits depalletization to adjustment for any amount of altered products. Depending on the blazon of bales and throughput requirement, the bales can be best up in multiples and depalletized in consecutive alone placing, with average reorientation of the gripper. Further assisting uses for these robots cover amid layers, rearranging appurtenances on to added pallets and allocation products. The arrangement offers the user quick and adjustable artefact administration and delivers abundant accumulation in time and cost. The action is both fault-tolerant and stable.
KUKA Roboter GmbH is abnormally appreciative to accept this accolade because it confirms that the way it has called is the appropriate one. It is the way to new technologies and ideas: alive ideas.
It sees in its innovations not alone a addition to adorning the plan in this physically actual ambitious ambiance but aswell an important anniversary on the alley to automation of appurtenances administration centers application automated robots.



About the 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
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D-86368 Gersthofen, Germany