Thing

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Thing$
Begin and end of the Project:$June,\; 1994\; -\; pres$
Project costs:$USD\; 1030$
Building effort [person years]:$2$
Source of financial support:$NSF;\; USD\; 1000\; honors\; fellowship\; UMass\; Honors\; Program$

Research group

Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics

Staff of the project:

Willard MacDonald (student)
Manfred Huber (student)
Roderic Grupen (advisor)

Information via www: http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/lpr.html

Contact address:

Roderic Grupen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Computer Science Dept. Amherst, MA 01002, USA
Tel: ++1 413 545 3280, Fax: ++1 413 545 ?, Email: grupen@cs.umass.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length Max. speed Number of legs 4 Energy supply DC-servos

Hight 0.25m Weight 1.6kg Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply 5V DC

Width Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption

References

see http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/publications.html

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