Baby Beetle

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Baby Beetle
Begin and end of the Project: July 2000 - continuing as student projects
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]: 3 man-months for basic machine as shown
Source of financial support:Lab teaching budget

Research group

NTU Robotics and Research Laboratory

Staff of the project:

Frank Nickols

Information via www: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mfnickols/home.htm

Contact address:

Frank Nickols, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tel: ++65 7906918, Email: mfnickols @ntu.edu.sg

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0.3m Max. speed 0.25m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply DC-servos
Hight 0.1m Weight 0.8kg Act. degrees of freedom 18 Power supply 7.2Vx0.55A-hr NiMHy battery
Width 0.3m Load 0.2kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 7minutes on above battery (not good enough)

References

See following for video clips:

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mfnickols/home.htm

external back to main page of walking machines catalogue

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