Project partners Project initiator: Dr. Wilfried Stoll, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Festo AG Project manager: Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Markus Fischer, Corporate Design, Festo AG & Co. KG AirPenguin concept and realisation: Rainer and Günther Mugrauer, Clemens Gebert Effekt-Technik GmbH, Schlaitdorf, Germany Autonomous control concept and realisation: Dipl.-Ing.Agalya Nagarathinam, Dipl.-Ing.Kristof Jebens Ingenieurbüro Jebens & Nagarathinam GbR, Gärtringen, Germany Photos: Walter Fogel, Angelbachtal, Germany Graphic design: Atelier Frank, Berlin, Germany Festo AG & Co. KG Ruiter Strasse 82 73734 Esslingen Germany Phone +49 711347-0 Telefax +49 711347-2155 cc@de.festo.com www.festo.com/bionic Technical data Overall length: 3.70 m Max. torso diameter: 0.88 m Helium volume: 0.980 cbm Wing span: 2.48 m Weight: 1.0 kg Control of wings, head and tail segments: 9 digital actuators, range 180° Materials Buoyancy body: aluminium-metallised foil, 22 g/qm Head and tail segments: 3D Fin Ray Effect®structure of carbon-fibre rods Wings: extruded polyurethane foam Wing strut: carbon-fibre rod Accumulator battery for wing drive and torso orientation: Li-Po battery, 2000 mAh, 4.2 V Receiver sensors: 32-bit microcontroller @ 50 MHz MCU 2x LM3S811 64 kbyte flash, 8 kbyte RAM Altitude measurement: SCP 1000 pressure sensor Distance measurement: ultrasound receiver capsules Measurement of rotation rate about vertical axis: Lisy 300-AL gyroscope Directionalandpositionalsensors: positionally compensated 3-axis compass with accelerometer Temperature measurement: temperature sensor 2.4 GHz radio transmission: based on ZigBee Current and voltage monitoring for Li-Po cell Overvoltage protection: DS2764 Li-Po protector Charging controller for Li-Po cell: Max1555 charging controller Accumulator battery: Li-Po battery, 2000 mAh, 4.2 V Base stations/ transmitting stations: 32-bit microcontroller @ 50 MHz MCU LM3S811 64 kbyte flash, 8 kbyte RAM Altitude measurement: SCP 1000 pressure sensor Distance measurement: ultrasound transmitters Temperature measurement: temperature sensor 2.4 GHz radio transmission: based on ZigBee Current and voltage monitoring for Li-Po cell Overvoltage protection: DS2764 Li-Po protector Charging controller for Li-Po cell: Max1555 charging controller Energy reserve for approx. 50 h continuous operation: Li-Po battery, 2000 mAh, 4.2 V Brands: Fin Ray Effect®is a brand of EvoLogics GmbH, Berlin, Germany 54709 en 7/2010
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