CYCLON

 

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project: CYCLON
Begin and end of the Project: july 1998, end is open
Project costs:
Building effort [person years]: so far 0.5
Source of financial support:Fachhochschule Bochum, <www.fh-bochum.de>

Research group

Fachhochschule Bochum, Labor fuer Informatik

Staff of the project:

Prof. Dr. Rainer Dudziak
Martin F. Troeger

Information via www:

Contact address:

Prof. Dr. Rainer Dudziak, Fachhochschule Bochum, Labor fuer Informatik
Lennershofstr. 140, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Tel: ++49 234 700 7159 or -6908, Fax: ++49 234 700 4276, Email: martin.f.troeger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply
Length 0.35m Max. speed 0.1m/s Number of legs 6 Energy supply DC-servos
Height 0.2m Weight 2kg Act. degrees of freedom 12 Power supply 7.2V DC
Width 0.15m Load 0.75kg Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption

References

Concept for eye-catching applications. One of those can be seen at the WDR-Computernacht fron 5th to 6th of dec. 1998. CYCLON will detect balloons with his camera and then īkillī them.

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