LAURON III

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: LAURON III (Legged Autonomous Robot Neural Controlled)
Begin and end of the Project: Nov. 1997 -
Project costs: 75000 DM
Building effort [person years]: 3
Source of financial support:Internal Research Project funded by FZI, DFG financement

Research group

Forschungszentrum Informatik, group IDS

Staff of the project:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Dillmann (director)
Dr. rer. nat. K. Berns
Dipl. Inform. W.Ilg
Dipl. Ing. V. Kepplin
Dipl. Inform. K.-U. Scholl

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 0.5m Max. speed 0.4m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply DC-servos
Height 0.3m Weight 18kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply 24V DC
Width 0.8m Load 10kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 60Watt

References

[Berns et al., 1998], [Berns and Kepplin, 1999], [Berns, 1999]

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