How to program your KUKA robot with mxAutomation in TIA Portal Tutorial

In this tutorial I want to show the basics of mxAutomation. Download this project for educational purposes: (does not include mxA or the KR30 models, see 5:06:29) 00:00 Introduction 02:21 Hardware setup for this tutorial 03:30 Software setup for this tutorial 04:32 Unboxing the KUKA robot and powering it up 06:02 Select the operating mode 06:52 Jog the robot in start-up mode 09:32 The safety plug X11 12:26 Copy data from the KRC4 hard drives 13:52 The mxAutomation USB flashdrive 14:42 Install KUKA WorkVisual 15:30 Connect the KRC to the PROFINET network 16:50 Install mxAutomation on the KUKA controller 23:42 Creating a TIA Portal project from scratch 26:08 Importing the KUKA GSDML files 29:20 Importing the mxA library 34:07 myKRC_Playground 49:03 Initialize mxA and power up the robot 54:53 Adding the mxA library function blocks to the playground 58:13 KRC_SetOverride 1:03:03 KRC_ReadActualAxisPos 1:03:59 KUKA robot coordinate systems 1:05:46 KRC_ReadActualPosition 1:07:28 KRC_WriteBaseData/KRC_ReadBaseData 1:12:22 KRC_SetCoordSys 1:14:43 KRC_WriteToolData/KRC_ReadToolData 1:17:42 KRC_Jog 1:32:42 Euler angles yaw-pitch-roll 1:35:12 KRC_JogToolRelative 1:39:12 KRC_JogLinearRelative 1:40:23 The robot wrist singularity 1:44:55 MC_MoveAxisAbsolute 1:46:45 MC_MoveLinearAbsolute 1:54:32 MC_MoveLinearRelative 1:57:24 QueueCount/KRC_Interrupt/KRC_Continue/KRC_Abort 2:03:23 Status and Turn 2:12:39 MC_MoveDirectAbsolute 2:16:49 MC_MoveDirectRelative 2:20:39 MC_MoveCircAbsolute 2:24:01 MC_MoveCircRelative 2:26:55 myKRC_RobotWebViewer 2:39:57 KRC_TouchUP 2:44:38 KRC_WriteWorkspace/KRC_ReadWorkspace 2:50:05 KUKA robot payload/compose 2:53:16 KRC_WriteLoadData/KRC_ReadLoadData 2:54:22 myKRC_GetSmartPadMessages 2:58:58 KRC_ReadSysVar 3:00:26 myKRC_Dashboard 3:09:17 KRC_ReadActualAxisVelocity 3:10:47 Difference between LIN and PTP motion 3:14:19 myKRC_WebViewerRecordTrace 3:17:42 KRCWriteToolData advanced example 3:23:58 KRC_WriteSoftEnd/KRC_ReadSoftEnd 3:26:36 KUKA robot PROFIsafe setup 3:36:57 Robot program 1: Approximation 4:13:27 Robot program compared to sequential step program 4:15:37 Operator push button to start the robot 4:29:57 Robot program 2: Subroutines 4:37:53 Record a robot trace 4:42:03 Robot program 3: myMC_MoveUniversal 4:50:29 Robot program 4: TouchUP points 4:55:17 KUKA_Playground for AxisGroupIdx 5:04:34 Control the robot with your smartphone 5:06:29 Download the myKRC_Playground