CRITTER

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$CRITTER$
Begin and end of the Project:$January\; 2000\; -\; January\; 2001$
Project costs:$$
Building effort [person years]:$1\; year\; -\; seven\; days\; a\; week$
Source of financial support:$self\; financed$

Research group

PRIVATE - BUILT FOR TECHNO GAMES

Staff of the project:

John Shepherd

Information via www:

Contact address:

John Shepherd, Berkshire United Kingdom
Tel: Email: john@jasonandco.fsnet.co.uk

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply

Length 1.0m Max. speed 9m/min Number of legs 8 Energy supply DC-motors

Hight 0.65m Weight 110kg Act. degrees of freedom 16 Power supply Battery 12V

Width 1.0m Load 100kg Pas. degrees of freedom 8 Power consumption 1400Watt

References

Comment about the machine - This robot has a perfect walking (insect like) gait and to travel 9 meters in a minute it has to run. There are no speed controllers or electronics in this machine. It can be steered, turns left and right, reverses slowly, with a zero turning circles.

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