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