General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: LAURON II (Legged Autonomous Robot Neural Controlled) Begin and end of the Project: June 1995 - Oct. 1997 Project costs: 15000 DM Building effort [person years]: 8 Source of financial support:Internal Research Project funded by FZI, DFG financement (DFG = German Research Community) Research group 1. Forschungszentrum Informatik, group IDS 2. University of Karlsruhe, institute for Technical Mechanics 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 Prof. Dr. J. Wittenburg - leader institute for Technical Mechanics Dr. P. Bührle - dynamical simulation 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 0.7m Max. speed 0.5m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply DC-servos Height 0.3m Weight 16kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply 12V DC Width 0.7m Load 15kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 70Watt References [Berns et al., 1994], [Berns et al., 1996], [Cordes and Berns, 1995], [Cordes et al., 1997a], [Ilg et al., 1997] back to main page of walking machines catalogue %
Research group
1. Forschungszentrum Informatik, group IDS 2. University of Karlsruhe, institute for Technical Mechanics
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 Prof. Dr. J. Wittenburg - leader institute for Technical Mechanics Dr. P. Bührle - dynamical simulation
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
References
[Berns et al., 1994], [Berns et al., 1996], [Cordes and Berns, 1995], [Cordes et al., 1997a], [Ilg et al., 1997]
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