General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: Nero Begin and end of the Project: May 1990 - Feb. 1991 Project costs: Building effort [person years]: Source of financial support: Financial support was provided by Nuclear Electric Research group Portech Mobile Robotics Laboratory Staff of the project: Prof. Dr. A. Collie (director) Dr B.L Luk Mr T.S White Mr N Bevan Information via www: http://www.ee.port.ac.uk:80/~ptechwww/ Contact address: Prof. Dr. A. Collie, Portsmouth Technology Consultants 70 Solent Road, Havant PO9 1JH, United Kingdom Tel: ++44 1705 492344, Fax: ++44 1705 492333, Email: aac@ee.port.ac.uk Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 0.8m Max. speed 0.1m/min Number of legs 8 Energy supply teleoperated pneumatic Height 0.16m Weight 15.6kg Act. degrees of freedom 3 Power supply compress. air, Width 0.35m Load 227 N Pas. degrees of freedom - Power consumption at 8 bar References [Luk et al., 1992], [Luk et al., 1993b], [White et al., 1991] back to main page of walking machines catalogue %
Research group
Portech Mobile Robotics Laboratory
Staff of the project:
Prof. Dr. A. Collie (director) Dr B.L Luk Mr T.S White Mr N Bevan
Information via www: http://www.ee.port.ac.uk:80/~ptechwww/
Contact address:
Prof. Dr. A. Collie, Portsmouth Technology Consultants 70 Solent Road, Havant PO9 1JH, United Kingdom Tel: ++44 1705 492344, Fax: ++44 1705 492333, Email: aac@ee.port.ac.uk
Technical data of the walking machine
References
[Luk et al., 1992], [Luk et al., 1993b], [White et al., 1991] back to main page of walking machines catalogue
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