Airbug

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Airbug
Begin and end of the Project: Aug. 2000 -
Project costs: 200000 DM
Building effort [person years]: 1.5
Source of financial support: Internal Research, Festo GmbH, Germany

Research group

Forschungszentrum Informatik, group IDS

Staff of the project:

Dipl. Inform. J. Albiez, Dr. K. Berns, Dipl. Ing.C. Hillenbrand
Dipl. Ing. V. Kepplin, R. Müller
Dipl. Inform.K.-U. Scholl, M. Schmalenbach

Information via www: http://www.fzi.de/ids/ids.html

Contact address:

Dr. Karsten Berns, Forschungszentrum Informatik,
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: ++49 721 9654 202, Fax: ++49 721 9654 209, Email: berns@fzi.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 1.3m Max. speed 0.1m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply compressed air 6 bar
Height 0.4m Weight 28kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply
Width 1.8m Load 2kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption

References

[Berns et al., 2000], [Berns et al., 2001]

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