Remote Control Package for Kuka Robots using MATLAB

Abstract

Kuka is one of the leading innovative companies in the manufacturing of industrial robots. However, they lack of direct communication with PC in order to send and receive data. To overcome this drawback, Kuka offers additional communication packages to establish the needed communication. However, this communication package requires calculating the forward and inverse kinematics or additional hardware (PLCs). Then sending the data as an XML file to the Kuka controller. This paper is dedicated to use KukaVarproxy package to establish connection between a Kuka robot and MATLAB. Thus, users can program the robot through MATLAB without using any additional software provided by Kuka (RSI, mxA). The paper focuses on developing a MATLAB package, which users can use to program the robot without requiring to use KRL. Also, the implemented functions allow the user to program the robot without the need of any mathematical information about the robot.