MENO II

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: MENO II
Begin and end of the Project: 1995-1997
Project costs: USD 5000
Building effort [person years]: 1
Source of financial support:Jet Propulsion Labs

Research group

Robotics Research Lab, USC

Staff of the project:

Prof. George Bekey ( Principal Investigator)
Gaurav Sukhatme - Research Assistant

Information via www: http://www.usc.edu/dept/robotics

Gaurav S. Sukhatme, University of Southern California, Dept. of Computer Science
941 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles , CA 90089-0781, USA
Tel: ++1 213 740-7288/7512, Fax: Email: gaurav@robotics.usc.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0.5m Max. speed untestet Number of legs 4 Energy supply DC-servos
Hight 0.3m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply 12V car battery
Width 0.5m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 4 Power consumption

References

[Sukhatme and Bekey, 1995a], [Sukhatme and Bekey, 1995b]

see http://www.usc.edu/dept/robotics/personal/gaurav/publications.html

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