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Technical data
Degrees of freedom:.......................................................................7
Net weight:................................................................... approx. 6 kg
Payload: . .................................................................. approx. 1.5 kg
Positioning accuracy: .............................................................. 1 mm
Software architecture:
• User interface: C# WPF application
• Calculation and path planning: Robot Operating System (ROS)
• Steering and control: Festo Motion Terminal
Pneumatic drive concept:
• 3 pivoting axes, 4 modified rotary axes based
on the DRVS semi-rotary vane drive
• 16 compressed air lines
• 7 sintered aluminium bearing shafts
• 7 adjustable Franke wire race bearings
• 15 packing cartridges
Displacement encoder system:
• 14 pressure sensors
• 7 absolute encoders with CAN bus
• 4 CAN bus cables
Project participants
Project initiator:
Dr Wilfried Stoll, managing partner,
Festo Holding GmbH
Project management:
Dr Heinrich Frontzek, Dr Elias Knubben,
Festo AG & Co. KG
Project team:
Nadine Kärcher, Mart Moerdijk, Sebastian Schrof, Christian
Trapp, Micha Purucker, Michael Baltes, Nathanael Peltzer,
Isabel Lamich, Dr Alexander Hildebrandt, Dr Rüdiger Neumann,
Festo AG & Co. KG
Scientific support:
Dr Nina Gaißert
Festo AG & Co. KG
Festo AG & Co. KG
Ruiter Strasse 82
73734 Esslingen
Germany
Phone +49 711 347-0
Fax
+49 711 347-21 55
cc@festo.com www.festo.com/bionics50133 en
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