LAURON

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$LAURON\; (Legged\; Autonomous\; Robot\; Neural\; Controlled)$
Begin and end of the Project:$June\; 1992\; -\; June\; 1995$
Project costs:$7000\; DM$
Building effort [person years]:$5$
Source of financial support:$Internal\; Research\; Project\; funded\; by\; FZI,\; DFG\; financement$
(DFG = German Research Community)

Research group

1. Computer Science Research Center, group IDS
2. University of Karlsruhe, institute IPR

Staff of the project:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Dillmann (director)
Dr. rer. nat. K. Berns - neural control
Dipl. Inform. St. Cordes - mechanics, sensor system, hardware
Dipl. Inform. W.Ilg - adaptiv control

Information via www: http://www.fzi.de/divisions/ids/ids.html

Contact address:

Dr. Karsten Berns, Forschungszentrum Informatik,
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: ++49 721 9654 202, Fax: ++49 721 9654 209, Email: berns@fzi.de

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension		Capacity		Mobility		Energy supply
Length	0.8m	Max. speed	1m/s	Number of legs	6	Energy supply	DC-servos
Height	0.3m	Weight	12kg	Act. degrees of freedom	18	Power supply	12V DC
Width	0.7m	Load	1kg	Pas. degrees of freedom	0	Power consumption	90Watt

References

[Berns et al., 1994], [Berns, 1994], [Cordes et al., 1993], [Ilg and Berns, 1994], [Piekenbrock and Berns, 1993]

Leonard

General description of the walking machine project

Name of the walking machine/project:$Leonard$
Begin and end of the Project:$Oct.\; 1994\; -\; Mar.\; 1995$
Project costs:$2000\; SF\; (Schweizer\; Franken)$
Building effort [person years]:$0,5$
Financial support:$EPFL$

Research group

Lab. de Microinformatique, (LAMI)

Staff of the project:

Prof. J.D. Nicoud(director)
F. Mondada
J.M. Puialte

Information via www: http://lamiwww.epfl.ch/Khepera5

Contact address:

Prof. J.D. Nicoud, Lab. de Microinformatique, (LAMI)
EPFL - INF - Ecublens, 1015 Lausanne, Schweiz
Tel: ++41 21 693-2642, Fax: ++41 21 693-5263, Email: nicoud@di.epfl.chnicoud@di.epfl.ch

Technical data of the walking machine

Dimension		Capacity		Mobility		Energy supply
Length	0,24m	Max. speed	0,1m/s	Number of legs	6	Energy supply	DC
Height	0,2m	Weight	1kg	Act. degrees of freedom	13	Power supply	5V
Width	0,2m	Load	own accumulator	Pas. degrees of freedom	0	Power consumption	0,8A

References