ARL Monopod II

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$ARL\; Monopod\; II$
Begin and end of the Project:$1994\; to\; 1998$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$4$
Source of financial support:$Natural\; Sciences\; and\; Engineering\; Research\; Council\; of\; Canada\; (NSERC)$

Research group

Ambulatory Robotics Laboratory, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University

Staff of the project:

Director: Professor Martin Buehler
Principle Investigator: Mojtaba Ahmadi
Support By: Pedro Gregorio, Hamid Rad, Joey Mennitto

Information via www: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~arlweb

Contact address:

Prof. Martin Buehler, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University
3480 University Street, Room MC423, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7
Tel: ++1 514-398-8985, Fax: ++1 514-398-7348, Email: buehler@cim.mcgill.ca

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 1.0m Max. speed 1.2m/s Number of legs 1 Energy supply Electric actuation

Hight 0.7m Weight 18kg Act. degrees of freedom 2 Power supply 24V external power supply

Width 0.3m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 5 Power consumption 48Watt mech. at at 1.2 m/s

References

see [Ahmadi and Buehler, 1999, Gregorio et al., 1997a, Ahmadi and Buehler, 1997a, Ahmadi and Buehler, 1997b, Ahmadi and Buehler, 1995, Gregorio et al., 1997b]

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