Nero

 

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]