LAURON

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$LAURON\; (Legged\; Autonomous\; Robot\; Neural\; Controlled)$
Begin and end of the Project:$June\; 1992\; -\; June\; 1995$
Project costs:$7000\; DM$
Building effort [person years]:$5$
Source of financial support:$Internal\; Research\; Project\; funded\; by\; FZI,\; DFG\; financement$
(DFG = German Research Community)

Research group

1. Computer Science Research Center, group IDS
2. University of Karlsruhe, institute IPR

Staff of the project:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Dillmann (director)
Dr. rer. nat. K. Berns - neural control
Dipl. Inform. St. Cordes - mechanics, sensor system, hardware
Dipl. Inform. W.Ilg - adaptiv control

Information via www: http://www.fzi.de/ids/ids.html

Contact address:

Dr. Karsten Berns, Forschungszentrum Informatik,
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: ++49 721 9654 202, Fax: ++49 721 9654 209, Email: berns@fzi.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.8m Max. speed 1m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply DC-servos

Height 0.3m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply 12V DC

Width 0.7m Load 1kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 90Watt

References

[Berns et al., 1994], [Berns, 1994], [Cordes et al., 1993], [Ilg and Berns, 1994] back to main page of walking machines catalogue

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