Short Biography of Dr. Roy Featherstone

Dr. Featherstone is a researcher specializing in robot dynamics and related
fields.  His most recent employment was at the Italian Institute of
Technology, where he worked mainly on the Skippy Project which aimed to create
a highly athletic monopedal hopping and balancing robot.  Before that he
worked at the Australian National University; and before that he was a
lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow in the Department of
Engineering Science (Robotics Group), Oxford University, and a senior
researcher at Philips Research Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, New York.  He
obtained his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University (Dept. of Artificial Intelligence)
and his first degree at Southampton University.  He is one of the world's
leading experts on rigid-body dynamics, the inventor of the Articulated-Body
Algorithm and the author of two books on dynamics.  He is also a Fellow of the
IEEE and a member of its Robotics and Automation Society.
His URL is http://royfeatherstone.org