Dr Stacey Shield

Bio-inspiration, Legged Manoeuvrability, Rapid deceleration and Gait Termination, Legged Robots

BSc(Eng) PhD Cape Town

Research Interests

  • Bio-inspiration
  • Legged Manoeuvrability
  • Rapid deceleration and Gait Termination
  • Legged Robots
  • Quadrupeds
  • Bipeds

Postgraduate Supervision

Masters

  • Abiodun Shalom, Spine Design for a Rapidly Accelerating Quadruped Robot
  • Foster Gavin, Modelling and developing a comprehensive walk and run cycle for a planar bipedal robot
  • Harford Joshua Raymond
  • Martin Zubair, Appendage selection to improve maneuvering in of legged robots
  • Norton Kamryn Georgia, Head-Stabilisation and Tracking of the Cheetah using Inverse Optimal Control
  • Schütz Damien Nelson, Inverse Optimal Control of Cheetah Locomotion 
  • Wimberley Heather Zoe, Control of Bounding on Hybrid Pneumatic-Electric Quadruped

Current Undergraduate Teaching

  • Control Systems Engineering: EEE3094S