Franka Robotics has announced that the Diana 7 robot from Agile Robots is now compatible with the Franka Control Interface (FCI), expanding its application in research and academia. The integration allows Diana 7 to join Franka Robotics’ ecosystem, offering users a robotic system with increased reach and payload capacity.
The FCI software interface provides researchers with direct access to the robot’s control algorithms, enabling real-time command execution at 1 kHz. This allows for precise control of position, velocity, and torque in joint space, as well as position, velocity, and force in Cartesian space. The system minimizes internal monitoring, limiting it to essential safety measures to prevent self-damage. Additionally, FCI facilitates integration with research tools such as C++ interface libfranka, ROS, ROS 2, MATLAB, and Simulink, connecting users to a broader robotics research community.
Diana 7, a force-sensitive robot with seven axes, is designed for applications requiring precision and ease of operation. The integration of FCI enables researchers to bypass intermediate software layers and directly interact with control algorithms, making it suitable for studies in force control, motion planning, grasping strategies, human-robot interaction, machine learning, and large-scale robotic model training.
