The PMAC motors that the Kuka arm uses were manufactured with old-school resolvers. Resolvers are great if you need to handle extreme environments, but they are very expensive to interface and have poor performance...
by mechtronicman · Published March 31, 2017 · Last modified June 14, 2017
After several weeks of board design and firmware development, the first revision of servo driver is up and running! There will be six of these in the final controller, most likely communicating over high...
After lots of hassle with the freight company, my new Kuka robot has arrived! Turns out it was far heavier than expected, mostly due to extra instrumentation bolted to the robot and a...
After watching eBay for a long time, I finally took a risk and bought an industrial robot arm! The arm is a Kuka KR210 manufactured in 2004. It doesn’t come with a controller, so...