Meltran II

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Meltran\; II$
Begin and end of the Project:$1989-1996$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$3$
Source of financial support:$AIST,\; MITI,\; Japan$

Research group

Mechanism Division, MEL

Staff of the project:

Shuuji Kajita, Kazuo Tani

Information via www: http://www.aist.go.jp/MEL/soshiki/robot/undo/kajita/biped-e.html

Contact address:

Shuuji Kajita, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL)
Namiki 1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan
Tel: +81-298-58-7280, Fax: +81-298-58-7275, Email: kajita@mel.go.jp

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.12m Max. speed 0.3m/s Number of legs 2 (planar biped) Energy supply Electric Motors

Hight 0.45m Weight 4,7kg Act. degrees of freedom 6 Power supply

Width 0.25m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption

References

see http://www.aist.go.jp/MEL/soshiki/robot/undo/kajita/Papers-e.html

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