General description of the walking machine project
Name of the walking machine/project: running machine: OLIE (One Leg Is Enough) Begin and end of the Project: start: 1995 - end: 1999 Project costs: ca. USD 12.000 Building effort [person years]: 6 Source of financial support:partially funded by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Research group Multibody Mechanics Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB = Dutch speaking part of the Free University of Brussels) Staff of the project: Prof. Dirk Lefeber (head of the group) Hans De Man (assistant) Jimmy Vermeulen (assistant) Information via www: http://wwwtw.vub.ac.be/ond/werk/multibody.htm Contact address: Hans De Man, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (TW - WERK) Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel: ++ 32-2-629.28.08, Fax: ++32-2-629.28.65, Email: hdman@vub.ac.be Technical data of the walking machine Dimension Capacity Mobility Energy supply Length 0.7m Max. speed 1m/s?? Number of legs 1 Energy supply 2 AC brushless servomotors Hight 0.7m Weight 12kg Act. degrees of freedom 2 Power supply 3 x 220 V (AC) Width 0.3m Load 3kg?? Pas. degrees of freedom 3 Power consumption 300Watt??? ? in the table means that the tests are still running. References see [Man, 1995, Man et al., 1996a, Man et al., 1996b, Man et al., 1997b, Man et al., 1997a, Man et al., 1998, Lefeber et al., 1996a, Lefeber et al., 1996b]
Research group
Multibody Mechanics Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB = Dutch speaking part of the Free University of Brussels)
Staff of the project:
Prof. Dirk Lefeber (head of the group) Hans De Man (assistant) Jimmy Vermeulen (assistant)
Information via www: http://wwwtw.vub.ac.be/ond/werk/multibody.htm
Contact address:
Hans De Man, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (TW - WERK) Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel: ++ 32-2-629.28.08, Fax: ++32-2-629.28.65, Email: hdman@vub.ac.be
Technical data of the walking machine
? in the table means that the tests are still running.
References
see [Man, 1995, Man et al., 1996a, Man et al., 1996b, Man et al., 1997b, Man et al., 1997a, Man et al., 1998, Lefeber et al., 1996a, Lefeber et al., 1996b]