General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: Robotic Spider Begin and end of the Project: April 1999 – continuing as student projects Project costs: Building effort [person years]: Initially 6 man-months for basic robot as shown Source of financial support:Lab teaching budget Research group NTU Robotics and Research Laboratory Staff of the project: Frank Nickols Information via www: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mfnickols/home.htm Contact address: Frank Nickols, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tel: ++65 7906918, Email: mfnickols @ntu.edu.sg Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 0.4m Max. speed 0.4m/s Number of legs 8 Energy supply DC-servos Hight 0.15m Weight 2kg Act. degrees of freedom 24 Power supply 7.2Vx3A-hr NiMHy battery Width 0.4m Load 0.75kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 20 mins on battery References See following for video clips: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mfnickols/home.htm back to main page of walking machines catalogue %
Research group
NTU Robotics and Research Laboratory
Staff of the project:
Frank Nickols
Information via www: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mfnickols/home.htm
Contact address:
Frank Nickols, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tel: ++65 7906918, Email: mfnickols @ntu.edu.sg
Technical data of the walking machine
References
See following for video clips:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mfnickols/home.htm
back to main page of walking machines catalogue
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