MECANT

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$MECANT\; (MECanical\; ANT)$
Begin and end of the Project:$Jan.\; 1988\; -\; Oct.\; 1993$
Project costs:$800000\; FIM\; (Finnish\; Mark)$
Building effort [person years]:$15$
Source of financial support:$Academy\; of\; Finland,\; Helsinki\; University,\; Industry,$
Technology Development of Finland, Technical Research Centre

Research group

Helsinki University of Technology, Automation Technology Laboratory

Staff of the project:

Prof. A. Halme (director)
M.Sc. I. Lepp"anen - Mechanics,sensor system, hardware
M.Sc. S. Salmi - Free gait

Information via www: http://www.automation.hut.fi

Contact address:

Prof. Aarne Halme , Helsinki University of technology, Autom ation Technology Laboratory
Otakaari 5A, 02150 ESPOO, Finnland
Tel: 358-0-4513301, Fax: 358-0-4513308, Email: aarne.halme@hut.fi

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 2,1m Max. speed 0,5m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply hydraulic

Height 1,6m Weight 1.100kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply 2 strokes

Width 2,4m Load 100kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 35KW.

References

[Halme et al., 1993], [Hartikainen et al., 1992c], [Hartikainen et al., 1992b], [Lehtinen, 1994]

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