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gpldecha edited this page May 18, 2016 · 2 revisions

ROS and KUKA Robot network setup

You will need to have either two ethernet network cards on your computer or one ethernet card and a USB ethernet adaptor. One of the ethernet cards will be connected to the KUKA control box with via an ethernet cable. The remaining ethernet card/USB adapater will be used to have access to he internet.

See LASA wiki KUKA for more in depth information on Network setup for the KUKA.

Once your two connections are setup, check that you can ping the KUKA robot. Robot IP 192.168.0.2

ping 192.168.0.2

Now there are two possible setups you might consider; 1) directly connect your PC to the KUKA or 2) Connect to a hub/switch which then connects to the KUKA control box.

Direct PC-KUKA control

  1. Add a new internet connection with the following information
  • Address: 192.168.0.1
  • Netmask: 255.255.255.0
  • GateWay: 0.0.0.0
  1. change the following ROS variables in your .bashrc file:

Make sure that your you are networking configuration you setup in 1) and now you should be able to use ROS and the KUKA robot.

PC-HUB-KUKA control

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