Robot hexapode

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Robot\; hexapode$
Begin and end of the Project:$Jan.\; 1989\; -\; Jun.\; 1989$
Project costs:$700\; DM$
Building effort [person years]:$1,5$
Source of financial support:$Internal\; Financement$

Research group

Laboratoire de Microinformatique, LAMI

Staff of the project:

Prof. J.D. Nicoud (director)
Mr. F. Mondada

Information via www: http://lamiwww.epfl.ch/w3lami/team/mondada/robots/robots.html

Contact address:

Mr. F. Mondada, Laboratoire de Microinformatique, LAMI
EPFL - INF - Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Schweiz
Tel.: ++41 21 693-2642, Fax: ++41 21 693-5263, Email: mondada@di.epfl.ch

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.3m Max. speed 0,2m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply DC motor

Hight 0.13m Weight 400g Act. degrees of freedom 5 Power supply 5V

Width 0.08m Load - Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 1A

References

[Heinzelmann, 1992]

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