6-legged Walking Machine - Exoskeleton

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$6-legged\; walking\; machine\; -\; exoskeleton$
Begin and end of the Project:$08.\; 98-10.98,\; still\; under\; development$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$1\; year$
Source of financial support:$KamnagelTheater-Hamburg,\; SMC\; Deutschland,\; F18-IKIT,\; DiekmannEnterprises$

Research group

F18-Institute for Art, Information and Technology

Staff of the project:

Construction: Gwendolin Taube, Stefan Doepner, Tom Diekman, Jan Cumerow
Programming/electronics: Lars Vaupel
Concept/performance: Stelarc

Information via www: http://f18.pop.de

Contact address:

Stefan Doepner, F18-Institute for Art, Information and Technology
Stockmeyerstrasse 43, HAMBURG, Germany
Tel: ++ 49 40 3174411, Email: f18@pop.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 2.2m Max. speed 1m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply pneumatic actuators

Hight 1.5m Weight 550kg Act. degrees of freedom 19 Power supply 10 bar/15 000l/m pneumatic compressor

Width 2.8m Load 120kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption

References

http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/exoskeleton/index.html

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