General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: Scorpion Begin and end of the Project: Apr. 1999 - Apr. 2002 Project costs: Building effort [person years]: 6 Source of financial support:DARPA grant Number N00014-99-0483 Research group Biomimetic Autonomous Robots BAR Staff of the project: Dr. Frank Kirchner (leader), Dr. Bernhard Klaassen Ralf Linnemann, Dirk Spenneberg Information via www: http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/BAR/ Contact address: Dr. Frank Kirchner, Fraunhofer Institut für Autonome intelligente Systeme Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Tel. +49 -2241 -14 -2402, Fax. +49 -2241 -14 -2384, Email: frank.kirchner@ais.fraunhofer.de Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 0.6m Max. speed 20cm/s Number of legs 8 Energy supply DC-servos Hight 0.15 - 0.35m Weight 9.5kg Act. degrees of freedom 24 Power supply 24V/3Ah Batteries Width 0.22m Load 1kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 120Watt References see also [Kirchner, 1999b], [Spenneberg and Kirchner, 2000] [Linnemann et al., 2001] see also http://ais.gmd.de/de/publikationen.html back to main page of walking machines catalogue %
Research group
Biomimetic Autonomous Robots BAR
Staff of the project:
Dr. Frank Kirchner (leader), Dr. Bernhard Klaassen Ralf Linnemann, Dirk Spenneberg
Information via www: http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/BAR/
Contact address:
Dr. Frank Kirchner, Fraunhofer Institut für Autonome intelligente Systeme Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Tel. +49 -2241 -14 -2402, Fax. +49 -2241 -14 -2384, Email: frank.kirchner@ais.fraunhofer.de
Technical data of the walking machine
References
see also [Kirchner, 1999b], [Spenneberg and Kirchner, 2000] [Linnemann et al., 2001]
see also http://ais.gmd.de/de/publikationen.html
back to main page of walking machines catalogue
%
