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]

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