Hexapod Mark I

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Hexapod\; Mark\; I$
Begin and end of the Project:$1993\; -\; ongoing$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$$
Source of financial support:$National\; Science\; Foundation;\; Office\; of\; Naval\; Research$

Research group

Hexapod group

Staff of the project:

Fred Delcomyn
Mark Nelson
Narendra Ahuja

Information via www: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/delcomyn/Research.10a.Robotics.htm

Contact address:

Prof. Fred Delcomyn, University of Illinois
505 S. Goodwin, Urbana, Illinois 61801; U.S.A.
Tel: ++1 217 333-8793; Fax: ++1 217 244-3499, Email: delcomyn@life.uiuc.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.58m Max. speed not measured Number of legs 6 Energy supply Pneumatic actuators

Hight 0.23m Weight 11kg Act. degrees of freedom Power supply

Width 0.14m Load 20kg Pas. degrees of freedom Power consumption

References

References available from my web site, http://www.life.uiuc.edu/delcomyn/
more specifically, at: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/delcomyn/Vita.htm

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