BIP

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$BIP$
Begin and end of the Project:$begin\; 1995,\; end\; fall\; 1999$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$10,\; including\; PhD\; students\; and\; related\; researches\; on\; control\; and\; architecture$
Source of financial support:$INRIA,\; Region\; Poitou-Charentes,\; Conseil\; General\; de\; la\; Vienne,\; CNRS$

Research group

Cooperative project between: Laboratoire de Mecanique des Solides de Poitiers
and BIP project, INRIA Rhone-Alpes

Staff of the project:

Main permanent staff: G. Bessonnet, B. Espiau,
P. Sardain, R. Pissard-Gibollet, H. Mathieu, P. Digiacomo
Collaboration with C. Canudas de Wit (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble), P. Junqua (LPM)
Poitiers), and the other researchers of the BIP project about 10 PhD students and trainees

Information via www: http://www.inrialpes.fr/bip

Contact address:

Bernard Espiau, INRIA Rhone-Alpes
655 Avenue de l'Europe, 38330 Montbonnot Saint Martin, FRANCE
Tel.: ++33 476 61 5329/5252, Email: Bernard.Espiau@inrialpes.fr

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length human size Max. speed 1.1m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply DC-servos

Hight Weight 80kg Act. degrees of freedom 15 Power supply Elctrical tethered

Width Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption

References

[Espiau, 1997, Sardain et al., 1999]

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