General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: Spring Flamingo Begin and end of the Project: March 1996 - Present Project costs: 25.000 USD Building effort [person years]: 2.5 Source of financial support: Research group Leg Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Staff of the project: Jerry Pratt, Mike Wittig Chee Meng Chew, Dave Robinson Ann Torres, Dan Paluska Robert Ringrose, Gill Pratt Information via www: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/Spring_Flamingo/Spring_Flamingo.html Contact address: Jerry Pratt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Tel: ++1 617-253-2475, Email: jpratt@ai.mit.edu Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 0.76m Max. speed 0.65m/s Number of legs 2 (Planar Biped) Energy supply Electric Motors Hight 1.2m Weight 14kg Act. degrees of freedom 6 Power supply Width 0.61m Load Pas. degrees of freedom 0 Power consumption References see http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/publications/publications.html
Research group
Leg Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Staff of the project:
Jerry Pratt, Mike Wittig Chee Meng Chew, Dave Robinson Ann Torres, Dan Paluska Robert Ringrose, Gill Pratt
Information via www: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/Spring_Flamingo/Spring_Flamingo.html
Contact address:
Jerry Pratt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Tel: ++1 617-253-2475, Email: jpratt@ai.mit.edu
Technical data of the walking machine
References
see http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/publications/publications.html