Boadicea

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Boadicea$
Begin and end of the Project:$September,\; 1992\; -\; January,\; 1995$
Project costs:$USD\; 15000$
Building effort [person years]:$2.5$
Source of financial support:$NASA\; Jet\; Propulsion\; Laboratory$

Research group

MIT Mobile Robotics Laboratory

Staff of the project:

1 graduate student

Information via www: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/mobile-robots/

Contact address:

Center for Design Research
Mike Binnard
560 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305 USA
(415) 725-0161 FAX (415) 725-8475, Email: binnard@cdr.stanford.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 0.5m Max. speed 10cm/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply pneumatic power

Hight Weight 2.5kg Act. degrees of freedom 16 Power supply

Width Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption pneumatic power, 100 psi

References

see http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/boadicea (this includes information and photographs)

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