KARLA

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$KARLA\; (KARlsruher\; LAufmaschine)$
Begin and end of the Project:$Nov.\; 1991\; -\; Jan.\; 1995$
Project costs:$6000\; DM$
Building effort [person years]:$3$
Financial support:$Internal\; Research\; Project\; funded\; by\; FZI$

Research group

Computer Science Research Center, group TE&R, Karlsruhe

Staff of the project:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Rembold (director)
Dr. rer. nat M. Rude - construction and control

Information via www: http://www.fzi.de/divisions/teur/teur.html

Contact address:

Dipl. Inform. Th. Cord, Forschungszentrum Informatik,
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: ++49 721 9654 322, Fax: ++49 721 9654 909, Email: cord@fzi.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension		Capacity		Mobility		Energy supply
Length	0.7m	Max. speed	0,5m/s	Number of legs	6	Energy supply	servos
Height	0.4m	Weight	4kg	Act. degrees of freedom	24	Power supply	12V
Width	0.4m	Load	0.5kg	Pas. degrees of freedom	4	Power consumption	25Watt

References

[Rude and Drapikowski, 1992]

Katharina

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$MAG$
Begin and end of the Project:$Jan.\; 1994\; -\; Dec.\; 1995$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$$
Financial support:$Internal\; Project\; funded\; by\; Fraunhofer-Institut\; Magdeburg$

Research group

Fraunhofer-Institut IFF, Abteilung Fabrikautomation
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Staff of the project:

Dr.sc.techn. U. Schmucker (director)
Dr.Ing.habil A.J. Schneider
Dipl.-Ing. T. Ihme
Dipl.-Ing. Ch. Bode

Information via www: http://www.iff.fhg.de/iff/aut/projects/schreit/mag_e.htm

Contact address:

Fraunhofer-Institut IFF, group factory automation, Abteilung Fabrikautomation, Dr.sc.techn. U. Schmucker
Elbstr. 3-5, 39104 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel: ++49 391 4090 201, Fax.: ++49 391 4090 345, Email: schmuck@iff.fhg.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension		Capacity		Mobility		Energy supply
Length	0.9m	Max. speed	0,17m/s	Number of legs	6	Energy supply	DC
Height	0.5m	Weight	21kg	Act. degrees of freedom	18	Power supply
Width	0.9m	Load	-	Pas. degrees of freedom	18	Power consumption	130Watt

References

[Schmucker et al., 1994], [Sun et al., 1994]

for further publications see http://www.iff.fhg.de/iff/aut/projects/schreit/public_d.htm and http://www.iff.fhg.de/iff/aut/projects/schreit/public_e.htm

KDW BIPED

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$KDW-Biped\; Robot$
Begin and end of the Project:$1987\; -\; 1995$
Project costs:$130000\; Y\; (Chinese\; Yuan)$
Building effort [person years]:$20$
Source of financial support:$NSFC\; (National\; Natural\; Science\; Foundaton\; of\; China),$
National High Technology Program

Research group

Changsha Institute of Technology,
Robot Control Laboratory of Automatic Control Department

Staff of the project:

Prof. Zhang Liangqi (director)
Prof. Zhang Peng
Adv.Eng. Ma Suoxiang
Prof. Dr. Zhu Changan
Eng. Yang Fengsan

Information via www:

Contact address:

Prof. Zhang Peng, Dept. of Automatic Control, Changsha Institute of Tech. Laboratory of Robot Control
De Ya street, Changsha, P.R. China
Tel: ++731 4434601 85398, Fax.: ++731 4448307, Email:

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension		Capacity		Mobility		Energy supply
Length	0.2m	Max. speed	0,2m/s	Number of legs	2	Energy supply	DC-servos
Height	0.8m	Weight	16,3kg	Act. degrees of freedom	12	Power supply	12V DC
Width	0.22m	Load	0	Pas. degrees of freedom	0	Power consumption	250 Watt

References

[Hongxu and Peng, 1991], [Hongxu et al., 1993b], [Hongxu et al., 1993a], [Suoxiang et al., 1991]