Centaurob I

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Centaurob I
Begin and end of the Project: January 1997 - ?
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]: about 10
Source of financial support:none

Research group

Cooperation of C-LAB; HNI, Paderborn University; LKL, Paderborn University

Staff of the project:

C. Geiger, J. Hampel, G. Lehrenfeld, Dr. W. Mueller
Prof. Dr. F.-J. Rammig, Prof. Dr. Dr. Schlattmann

Information via www: http://www.c-lab.de/vis/centaurob.html

Contact address:

Dr. W. Mueller, C-LAB,
Fuerstenallee 11, D-33102 Paderborn, Germany
Tel.: +49 5251 606134, Fax: +49 5251 606065, Email: wolfgang@acm.org

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0.5m Max. speed 0.01m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply Energy: cable
Hight 1.2 - 1.7m Weight 90kg Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply Power: 220V
Width 0.7m Load 50kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 200Watt

References

CURBI

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Curbi (Clemson University Robot Biped)
Begin and end of the Project: Jan. 1986 - present
Project costs: USD 200.000
Building effort [person years]:
Source of financial support: Nal. Science Foundation and Dep. of Energy, USA

Research group

Robotics research laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Ohio State University

Staff of the project:

Dr. Yuan F. Zheng (director)
Dr. K. Young Yi
Mr. St. Stitt

Information via www:

Contact address:

Dr. Yuan F. Zheng, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University
2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Tel: 614 292 2571, Fax: 614 292 7596, Email: zheng@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0,18m Max. Speed 0,5 m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply DC-servos
Height 0,89m Weight 9,16kg Act. degrees of freedom 8 Power supply 12V DC
Width 0,26m Load 1kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 60Watt

References

[Golden and Zheng, 1990], [Salatian and Zheng, 1992], [Zheng and Sias, 1988], [Zheng and Shen, 1990]

CWRU Robot II

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: CWRU Robot II
Begin and end of the Project: 1992-95
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]: 6
Source of financial support:NASA Goddard, Office of Naval Research

Research group

CWRU Bio-Robotics Laboratory

Staff of the project:

Roger Quinn Randy Beer Roy Ritzmann Hillel Chiel

Information via www: http://biorobots.cwru.edu

Contact address:

Roger Quinn, Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland 44106-7222, Ohio, USA
Tel: , Fax: , Email: rdq@po.cwru.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0.76m Max. speed Number of legs 6 Energy supply
Hight 0.2m Weight Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply
Width 0.46m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 6 Power consumption

References

aturhinweise see web page http://biorobots.cwru.edu

CMU Hexapod

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: CMU Hexapod
Begin and end of the Project: 1980-1983
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]:
Source of financial support:???
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Research group ???

Staff of the project:

Sutherland
Sproull ??? Contact address:

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Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 2.4m Max. speed 0.11m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply ???
Height ??? Weight ??? Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply ???
Width ??? Load ??? Pas. degrees of freedom ???Power consumption ???

References

[Raibert and Sutherland, 83, Sutherland and Ullner, 1984]

Collie1

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Collie1
Begin and end of the Project: ???
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]:
Source of financial support:???

Research group University of Tokyo

Staff of the project:

H. Miura

Information via www: ????

Contact address: ???

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length ??? Max. speed ??? Number of legs 4 Energy supply ???
Height ??? Weight ??? Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply ???
Width ??? Load ??? Pas. degrees of freedom 8 Power consumption ???

References

[andI. Shimoyama andM. Mitsuishi and Kimura, , Shin et al., 1989]

Colt 3

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Colt 3
Begin and end of the Project: 1989
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]:
Source of financial support:

Research group Gifu University, Tokyo

Staff of the project:

A. SanoJ. Furusho ???

Contact address: ???

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0.94m Max. speed 0.23m/s Number of legs 4 Energy supply DC-servos
Height 0.88m Weight 45kg Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply
Width 0.76m Load ??? Pas. degrees of freedom ??? Power consumption

References

[Sano and Furusho, 1989]