With the KR C4, robotic technology leader KUKA is launching a control system onto the market that integrates robot, motion, sequence and process control. But that is not all. Even more important is the fact that the complete safety controller is seamlessly integrated into the KR C4 control system. In other words, the KR C4 performs all tasks at once.
In the new control system, KUKA has systematically dispensed with limiting hardware and replaced it with intelligent software functions. The concept is thus characterized by its absolute openness and future compatibility.
Conventional interfaces are replaced by intelligent, linked data streams, thus allowing direct communication between the individual control modules of the KR C4.
KR C4 the control system for the future
The revolutionary concept of the KR C4 provides a firm foundation for the automation of tomorrow. The systematic elimination of limiting hardware and its replacement with commonly-used, open industry standards, such as multi-core and Ethernet technology, offers enormous performance and development potential. Based on these technologies, Ethernet-based field bus systems, such as ProfiNet or Ethernet/IP, can be simply integrated as software functions. In this way, the KR C4 concept will automatically benefit from future leaps in development and performance increases. This new systematic approach, implementing the control processes as software functions, reduces the number of hardware modules by 35% and the connectors and cables by 50%.
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