Kuka KR 20-3 - Product Description; Robot System Components Overview; Manipulator Assemblies and Kinematics

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3 Product description
3 Product description
3.1 Overview of the robot system
A robot system (>>> Fig. 3-1 ) comprises all the assemblies of an industrial
robot, including the manipulator (mechanical system and electrical installa-
tions), control cabinet, connecting cables, end effector (tool) and other equip-
ment. The product family (model) KR 20-3 comprises the robot variants:
 KR 20-3
 KR 20-3 C
An industrial robot of this product family comprises the following components:
 Manipulator
 Robot controller
 Connecting cables
 KCP teach pendant (KUKA smartPAD)
 Software
 Options, accessories
3.2 Description of the manipulator
Overview The manipulators (manipulator = robot arm and electrical installations)
(>>> Fig. 3-2 ) of the KR 20-3 model are designed as 6-axis jointed-arm kine-
matic systems. They consist of the following principal components:
 In-line wrist
 Arm
 Link arm
 Rotating column
 Base frame
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Fig. 3-1: Example of a robot system
1 Manipulator 3 Robot controller
2 Connecting cables 4 Teach pendant KCP (KUKA
smartPAD)