OLIE (One Leg Is Enough)

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$running\; machine:\; OLIE\; (One\; Leg\; Is\; Enough)$
Begin and end of the Project:$start:\; 1995\; -\; end:\; 1999$
Project costs:$ca.\; USD\; 12.000$
Building effort [person years]:$6$
Source of financial support:$partially\; funded\; by\; the\; Vrije\; Universiteit\; Brussel$

Research group

Multibody Mechanics Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB = Dutch speaking part of the Free University of Brussels)

Staff of the project:

Prof. Dirk Lefeber (head of the group)
Hans De Man (assistant)
Jimmy Vermeulen (assistant)

Information via www: http://wwwtw.vub.ac.be/ond/werk/multibody.htm

Contact address:

Hans De Man, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (TW - WERK)
Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: ++ 32-2-629.28.08, Fax: ++32-2-629.28.65, Email: hdman@vub.ac.be

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.7m Max. speed 1m/s?? Number of legs 1 Energy supply 2 AC brushless servomotors

Hight 0.7m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 2 Power supply 3 x 220 V (AC)

Width 0.3m Load 3kg?? Pas. degrees of freedom 3 Power consumption 300Watt???

? in the table means that the tests are still running.

References

see [Man, 1995, Man et al., 1996a, Man et al., 1996b, Man et al., 1997b, Man et al., 1997a, Man et al., 1998, Lefeber et al., 1996a, Lefeber et al., 1996b]

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