General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: Nero Begin and end of the Project: May 1990 - Feb. 1991 Project costs: Building effort [person years]: Source of financial support: Financial support was provided by Nuclear Electric Research group Portech Mobile Robotics Laboratory Staff of the project: Prof. Dr. A. Collie (director) Dr B.L Luk Mr T.S White Mr N Bevan Information via www: http://www.ee.port.ac.uk:80/~ptechwww/ Contact address: Prof. Dr. A. Collie, Portsmouth Technology Consultants 70 Solent Road, Havant PO9 1JH, United Kingdom Tel: ++44 1705 492344, Fax: ++44 1705 492333, Email: aac@ee.port.ac.uk Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 0.8m Max. speed 0.1m/min Number of legs 8 Energy supply teleoperated pneumatic Height 0.16m Weight 15.6kg Act. degrees of freedom 3 Power supply compress. air, Width 0.35m Load 227 N Pas. degrees of freedom - Power consumption at 8 bar References [Luk et al., 1992], [Luk et al., 1993b], [White et al., 1991] Ninjya General description of the walking machine project Name of the walking machine/project: Ninjya Begin and end of the Project: Jan. 1980 - Dec. 1996 Project costs: USD 30000 Building effort [person years]: 5 Source of financial support: Internal Research Project Research group Research Group of wall-climbing Robot, Faculty of Engeneering, Miyazaki University Staff of the project: Prof. Dr. A. Nishi (director) Mr. H. Miyagi Mr. Y. Wakasugi Information via www: Contact address: Prof. Dr. A. Nishi, Faculty of Engeneering, Miyazaki University Miyazaki 889-21, Japan Tel.: ++81 985 58 2811, Fax: ++81 985 58 1647 Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply DV-servos, Length 0.7m Max. speed 0,5m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply AC vacuum Height 0.7m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 5 Power supply 12VDC, 100VAC Width 0.3m Load 1kg Pas. degrees of freedom 5 Power consumption 20Watt, References [Nishi, 1992]
Research group
Portech Mobile Robotics Laboratory
Staff of the project:
Prof. Dr. A. Collie (director) Dr B.L Luk Mr T.S White Mr N Bevan
Information via www: http://www.ee.port.ac.uk:80/~ptechwww/
Contact address:
Prof. Dr. A. Collie, Portsmouth Technology Consultants 70 Solent Road, Havant PO9 1JH, United Kingdom Tel: ++44 1705 492344, Fax: ++44 1705 492333, Email: aac@ee.port.ac.uk
Technical data of the walking machine
References
[Luk et al., 1992], [Luk et al., 1993b], [White et al., 1991]
Name of the walking machine/project: Ninjya Begin and end of the Project: Jan. 1980 - Dec. 1996 Project costs: USD 30000 Building effort [person years]: 5 Source of financial support: Internal Research Project Research group Research Group of wall-climbing Robot, Faculty of Engeneering, Miyazaki University Staff of the project: Prof. Dr. A. Nishi (director) Mr. H. Miyagi Mr. Y. Wakasugi Information via www: Contact address: Prof. Dr. A. Nishi, Faculty of Engeneering, Miyazaki University Miyazaki 889-21, Japan Tel.: ++81 985 58 2811, Fax: ++81 985 58 1647 Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply DV-servos, Length 0.7m Max. speed 0,5m/s Number of legs 2 Energy supply AC vacuum Height 0.7m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 5 Power supply 12VDC, 100VAC Width 0.3m Load 1kg Pas. degrees of freedom 5 Power consumption 20Watt, References [Nishi, 1992]
Research Group of wall-climbing Robot, Faculty of Engeneering, Miyazaki University
Prof. Dr. A. Nishi (director) Mr. H. Miyagi Mr. Y. Wakasugi
Information via www:
Prof. Dr. A. Nishi, Faculty of Engeneering, Miyazaki University Miyazaki 889-21, Japan Tel.: ++81 985 58 2811, Fax: ++81 985 58 1647
[Nishi, 1992]