I recently picked up on a project to try and fix a 2014 LBR iiwa 14 that we acquired recently. The robot was working originally and we were able to manipulate it manually using the attached smartPAD. The people originally working on it updated the StationSetup.cat in the Sunrise Workbench and upon attempting to upload their change (I don’t know the exact details but they said it was a very simple disengaging of the manual stop), they lost all connectivity between the robot and controller. They used the USB Recovery Stick to flash the cabinet back to its original factory state. That is where I came in, but still nothing is working.
The smartPAD is showing multiple errors. Upon startup, it shows the “Available robots” page with only the words “Waiting for cyclic connection” but that never changes. On the top it gives the error “unable to configure IP address automatically”. Under KRC Status, I get “KRC is disconnected”. And when attempting to PING an IP, it reverts back to 0.0.0.0 and gives me “Error 18: Bad target address, – 0.0.0.0”. After waiting as well, a message pops up saying “No connection to KRC possible”.
I’ve attached a monitor to the controller and can run the SunriseWorkbenchOS and SmartHMI but don’t get very far with that. When running SmartHMI, it says no Robots are connected, the HMI State is Disconnected with a red LED on it. It shows process data and frames to be unknown as well.
I have attempted to speak to KUKA representatives who haven’t been able to provide much of a solution so I am hoping I might be able to find a solution on here.