LAVA (Legged Autonomous Vehicular Agent)

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$LAVA\; (Legged\; Autonomous\; Vehicular\; Agent)$
Begin and end of the Project:$from\; 1998$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$$
Source of financial support:$$

Research group

Robotics Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University

Staff of the project:

Dr. John Heng - mechanical design
Dr. habil. Teresa Zielinska - control system
Dr. Gerald Seet - project management

Information via www:

Contact address:

Gerald Seet, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore
639798 SINGAPORE, NTU,MPE,RRC, SINGAPORE
Tel: (+65)7905568 , Email:

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.13m Max. speed 1cm/s Number of legs 4 Energy supply DC-servos

Hight 0.15m Weight 2kg Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply 12V DC

Width 0.115m Load 0.5kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 48Watt

References

[T.Zielinska and J.Heng, 2001]

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