- Alan N. Federman, PhD -

"Yes, I really am a down-to-earth genuine rocket scientist who knows a bit about robots."

This is my oorginal website started in 1995 - last updated 2016

Robot YouTubes

Recent:

Down to Earth Rocket Science:

Streaming Media

Robotics:

  • Latest robot - door opener YouTube 2012
  • FIRST robotics - won National Championship, 2000
  • Botball - won National Championship 2001
  • FIRST Home Page
  • RoboNexus I'm speaking 10/09/05!
  • The P-plan Multi Media site for my lecture on Team Success
  • In 2004 and 2005 I mentored Team 254. They were Chairman Award Winners - Team 254 website.
  • Servo Magazine, Jan, 2006 PMP Pneumatically Influenced Mobility Platfom - rover design article.
  • GoPHR Article in November 2010 Servo Magazine. More info below.
  • Servo Magazine, Sep, 2007 Solar Charger - article.
  • YouTube Turtlebot Voice Control
  • YouTube Turtle teleop
  • Arduino blink
  • ROS Blink

    My Robots in Action - Real Media and YouTube Video Clips

    2010 GoPHR General Purpose Household Robot -- Hercules 2014

    This is a prototype for an assisted living or telerobotic robotic servant. Project started in 2009, and an article was published in the 11/2010 issue of Servo Magazine. In the figure above the robot appears in a telerobotic configuration. Both the bottom tool (Sweeper Vac, damp mop) and the mid-deck tool (Spatula, speaker, Nerf pistol) can be swapped out quickly. The concept is to develop a flexible platform that can evolve in sophistication as time permits. Planned enhancements include a more sophisticated controller, and a homebuilt laser ranging system. In 2012 GoPHR was retired, but work continued on the Ubiquity Robotics Project with the development of Hercules. Hercules is a prototype platform for a domestic robot, a next generation GoPHR.
    YouTube Video - in operation
    YouTube Video - hardware explanation
    YouTube Video - Wall following
    YouTube Video Skype Telepresence Demo
    PowerPoint explaining GoPHR
    PowerPoint on how to build a robot using COTS.

  • SENSORS 2002-2005
    RealPlayer required, will open in separate window.
    This is an actual run of the program, you can see the
    lego robot getting instructions (the usually invisible)
    infrared LEDs flash. The wire is for power - the batteries
    in a LEGO brick are not recharge-able and would die every
    3 hours if left on. After the robot returns to 'base'
    it sends the results of it mission to a spreadsheet for
    downloading and analysis. The web site ran from 2002 to 2005.
    It was shut down due to NASA security concerns.
    The site ran on a single Windows 2000 box using Inet and asp.

  • Planetary Mobile Platform
    This is the pneumatic rocker bogey chasis I built as an
    experiment, and wrote up in 'Servo' Magazine.

  • Personal Exploration Rover
    The PER(personal exploration rover) was designed by Illah
    Nourbakhsh of Carnegie-Mellon University to teach robotics
    to the general public. PER displays are at the Exploratorium,
    National Air and Space Museum and NASA.I had one (2003-2008) of
    of the 30 in service.

    Image Gallery Here is the original 'Timeline' I wrote in 2005 - take that Facebook!

    View Resume in MS-Word .doc format.

    This page uses a simple css.

    Thanks for Visiting.

    Experiments in Web Technologies

     
 Does Perl Work?
 Does Python Work?
 PHP Info on this site.


Stupid Cell Phone Tricks HTML/WML/PHP/XML 

    
This is a project(2006), examining if it would be possible to have a 
'virtual' cell phone on the web. This would be a replacement phone in
case I lost or broke my cell phone while away from home.  Of course 
this is now automatic on the cloud - I was about 5 years ahead of my time.