SpaceCat

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$SpaceCat$
Begin and end of the Project:$1998-1999$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$2$
Source of financial support:$European\; Space\; Agency\; -\; TRP\; project$

Research group

Autonomous Systems Lab - Swiss Federal Institute for Technology - Lausanne and MECANEX SA, Nyon

Staff of the project:

Michel Lauria
Prof. R. Siegwart
François Conti
P.-A. Mäusli (MECANEX SA)

Information via www: http://dmtwww.epfl.ch/isr/asl/projects/rosa.html

Contact address:

Michel Lauria, Autonomous Systems Lab - Swiss Federal Institute for Technology
1000 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: ++41 21693 5911, Fax: ++41 21693 3866, Email: michel.lauria@epfl.ch

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.3m Max. speed 1m/s Number of legs 2 Frames of 3 wheels Energy supply

Hight 0.2m Weight 2kg Act. degrees of freedom 10 Power supply

Width 0.2m Load 2kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 8V - 1,5A

References

[Siegwart et al., 1998, Lauria et al., 1998]

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