WABIAN (WAseda BIpedal humANoid)

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$WABIAN\; (WAseda\; BIpedal\; humANoid)$
Begin and end of the Project:$1992-2000$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$$
Source of financial support:$$

Research group

Humanoid Project, Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University

Staff of the project:

Prof. Shuji Hashimoto (Vision, Kansei), Prof. Seinosuke Narita (Multimedia)
Prof. Katsuhiko Shirai (Speech, Vision), Prof. Atsuo Takanishi (Humanoid Robot Mechanism)
Prof. Tetsunori Kobayashi (Speech, Vision), Prof. Shigeki Sugano (Manipulator, Artificial Mind)
Prof. Yoshio Yamasaki (Acoustics), Dr. Kazuo Tanie (MEL, MITI)

Information via www: http://www.shirai.info.waseda.ac.jp/humanoid/

Contact address:

Prof. Shuji Hashimoto, Humanoid Research Laboratory (HUREL), Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering
55th building S-7-9, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169, Japan
Tel: ++81-3-3208-8714, Fax: ++81-3-3208-8714, Email: hurel@shalab.phys.waseda.ac.jp

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.533m Max. speed 0.21m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply 15 AC motors and 28 DC motors

Hight 1.66m Weight 107kg Act. degrees of freedom 43 Power supply AC 200[V], DC 24[V],DC 5[V]

Width 0.717m Load 2kg Pas. degrees of freedom 8 Power consumption

References

[Hashimoto, 1998, Takanobu et al., 1998]

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