Kuka VisionTech 2.1 User Manual

11 / 109Issued: 11.10.2013 Version: KST VisionTech 2.1 V1
3 Product description
3 Product description
3.1 Overview of VisionTech
Functions VisionTech is an add-on technology package and consists of an image pro-
cessing package and a plug-in for the KUKA smartHMI. The acquisition and
processing of images is used to calculate a base correction. The base correc-
tion can be used to correct the position of the robot relative to the position of
a component.
Areas of appli-
cation
 Detecting the position of components
 Deracking
 Depalletizing
Communication The robot controller communicates with one or more GigE cameras via the im-
age processing system. The connection between the kernel system and the
image processing system is established via the Ethernet KRL interface.
Fig. 3-1: Communication, KR C4
1 Stationary camera 4 Robot
2 Connecting cable 5 Robot-guided cameras
3 KR C4 6 Service laptop
Fig. 3-2: Communication, KR C4 compact

Kuka VisionTech 2.1 Specifications

General

Brand	Kuka
Model	VisionTech 2.1
Category	Robotics
Language	English