KUKA Sunrise Toolbox: Interfacing Collaborative Robots With MATLAB

Pedro Neto
1 min readSep 3, 2019

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Collaborative robots are increasingly present in our lives. The KUKA LBR iiwa, equipped with the KUKA Sunrise.OS controller, is one example of a collaborative/sensitive robot. This tutorial presents the KUKA Sunrise Toolbox (KST), a MATLAB toolbox that interfaces with KUKA Sunrise.OS. KST contains functionalities for networking, soft control in real time, point-to-point motion, parameter setters/getters, general purpose, and physical interaction. It includes approximately 100 functions and runs on a remote computer connected with the KUKA Sunrise controller via Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The potentialities of the KST are demonstrated in nine application examples.

References

Safeea M., Neto P., Kuka sunrise toolbox: Interfacing collaborative robots with MATLAB, IEEE Robot. Autom. Mag., 26 (1) (2019), pp. 91–96, 10.1109/MRA.2018.2877776

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