General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: Ambler Begin and end of the Project: Jan. 1988 - Dec. 1992 Project costs: several million dollars Building effort [person years]: about 50 Source of financial support: NASA Research group Planetary Rover Group, School of Computer Science Staff of the project: Dr. W. Whittaker (director) Dr. R. Simmons (director) Dr. E. Krotkov (director) Information via www: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/epk/www/home.html Contact address: Dr. Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute 500 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsilvania 15213-3891, USA Tel: ++1 412 268 2621, Fax: ++1 412 268 5576, Email: reids@cs.cmu.edu Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 3,5m Max. Speed 0,3 m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply permanent magnet DC motors Height 4-6m Weight 2050kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply batteries, propane generator Width 4,5m Load 1000kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 1900Watt References [Hoffman and Krotkov, 1992], [Krotkov, 1990], [Krotkov et al., 1995], [Simmons et al., 1991], [Simmons and Krotkov, 1991a], [Simmons, 1992], [Simmons and Krotkov, 1993a] back to main page of walking machines catalogue %
Research group
Planetary Rover Group, School of Computer Science
Staff of the project:
Dr. W. Whittaker (director) Dr. R. Simmons (director) Dr. E. Krotkov (director)
Information via www: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/epk/www/home.html
Contact address:
Dr. Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute 500 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsilvania 15213-3891, USA Tel: ++1 412 268 2621, Fax: ++1 412 268 5576, Email: reids@cs.cmu.edu
Technical data of the walking machine
References
[Hoffman and Krotkov, 1992], [Krotkov, 1990], [Krotkov et al., 1995], [Simmons et al., 1991], [Simmons and Krotkov, 1991a], [Simmons, 1992], [Simmons and Krotkov, 1993a]
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