KUKA.ForceTorqueControl

KUKA.ForceTorqueControl enables industrial robots to react to forces and torques acting on the robot tool in a sensitive manner. Robots typically move along programmed paths without consideration of the forces and torques acting on the tool or workpiece. In many cases, however, these process forces have a decisive influence on the quality and process reliability of an application (e.g. assembly, polishing, grinding, bending). By using KUKA.ForceTorqueControl, the process forces and torques involved in a robot motion can be programmed and adhered to.

Key advantages of KUKA.ForceTorqueControl:

Complex manufacturing processes can be automated due to the level of sensitivity gained. This increases the quality and process reliability. Process forces are monitored and strictly adhered to.

• Joining of components, for example, in the electronics industry

• Alignment of components with high tolerances (e.g. castings)

• Distortion-free loading of machine tools

• Compliance with defined process forces during friction stir welding

• Deburring of components

• Surface polishing

• Monitoring of process forces, e.g. during milling

Hardware:

  KUKA industrial robots (e.g. KR AGILUS, KR QUANTEC, KR titan)

• KR C4, KR C4 compact, KR C4 Ext., KR C4 smallSize

• Force/torque sensor as a field bus device (e.g. ProfiNET, EtherCAT, EthernetIP) or other supported sensor types

Software

• KUKA System Software (KSS) 8.2, 8.2sr, 8.3

• KUKA WorkVisual 4.0, 5.0