CURBI

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: Curbi (Clemson University Robot Biped)
Begin and end of the Project: Jan. 1986 - present
Project costs: USD 200.000
Building effort [person years]:
Source of financial support: Nal. Science Foundation and Dep. of Energy, USA

Research group

Robotics research laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Ohio State University

Staff of the project:

Dr. Yuan F. Zheng (director)
Dr. K. Young Yi
Mr. St. Stitt

Information via www:

Contact address:

Dr. Yuan F. Zheng, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University
2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Tel: 614 292 2571, Fax: 614 292 7596, Email: zheng@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0,18m Max. Speed 0,5 m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply DC-servos
Height 0,89m Weight 9,16kg Act. degrees of freedom 8 Power supply 12V DC
Width 0,26m Load 1kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption 60Watt

References

[Golden and Zheng, 1990], [Salatian and Zheng, 1992], [Zheng and Sias, 1988], [Zheng and Shen, 1990]

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