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General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$RHex\; -\; 0$
Begin and end of the Project:$July\; \text{'}99\; -\; August\; \text{'}99$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$.25$
Source of financial support:$DARPA$

Research group

Ambulatory Robotics Laboratory, Centre for Intelligent Machines,
McGill University, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
The University of Michigan, and The Poly-Pedal Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley

Staff of the project:

Directors: Prof. Martin Buehler, Prof. Daniel E. Koditschek, and Prof. Robert J. Full
Principle Investigator: Uluc Saranli
Support By: Liana Mitrea

Information via www: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ulucs/rhex

Contact address:

Ambulatory Robotics Laboratory, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University
Prof. Martin Buehler
3480 University, Room MC423, Montreal, H3A 2A7
Quebec, Canada
Tel (514) 398-8985 / Fax (514) 398-7348, Email: buehler@cim.mcgill.ca

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.53m Max. speed 0.5m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply Electric Actuation

Hight 0.25m Weight 7kg Act. degrees of freedom 6 Power supply 2 x 12V 2.6Ah Pb acid batteries

Width 0.52m Load 7,94kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 80Watt

References

[Saranli et al., 2000]

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