Augmented Reality App Speeds and Simplifies New Robot Startups
February 12, 2024Comments
Kuka’s new Kuka.MixedReality software allows users to visualize the
environment of robot cells live on their smartphones to support fast, safe and
intuitive robot startups. The free mobile app displays tools and interference
geometries for early detection of potential hazards that can then be eliminated
before a robot begins to work. The software will simulate robot motion along with
a virtual gripper and detect any potential collisions that arise in the AR
environment. The ability to resolve potential collisions at an early stage prevents
damage to the robot and gripper.
"Augmented or mixed reality is a future-oriented topic that offers promising opportunities in robotics,” says Roland Ritter, Kuka portfolio manager—simulation. “This new mobile app makes robot installation user friendly and safe.”
Other app features: It graphically displays all relevant variables directly for the robot in real time, including Cartesian or violated monitoring spaces, safety-oriented tools and tool spheres; and users can view the corresponding configuration parameters of the spaces or tools.
With the app downloaded to a smartphone or tablet (via the Apple App Store or Google Play Store), all relevant information about the robot transmits directly to the via WLAN through a router or access point—not a Kuka product—and displays visually on the device. AR headsets or additional hardware are not required, and a Kuka.MixedReality Safe technology package installs in the robot controller as a data source, along with one of the Kuka.SafeOperation technology packages to use with the Safe functions.
See also: KUKA Robotics Corp.
Technologies: Pressroom Automation
