Leanne Raw
Lecturer
Room 212, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Building, Upper Campus, UCT
Qualifications:
- PhD Electrical Engineering (Specialisation in Mechatronic Engineering), University of Cape Town (In Progress)
- MSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Cape Town
- BSc Electro-Mechanical Engineering, University of Cape Town
Undergraduate Teaching:
- Measurement and Actuators
- Control Systems
- Integrating Embedded Systems
- Mechatronic Systems
- Product Design
- Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering Machine Element Design III
- Computer Integrated Manufacture and Robotics
- Measurement and Control in Engineering Systems
Research Affiliations:
- MechatronicSystems.Group
- African Robotics Unit
- Robotics and Agents Research Laboratory (RARL)
Publication Profile:
- Evolving gaits for damage control in a hexapod robot, C Mailer, G Nitschke, L Raw, 2021, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 146-153
- Raw, L.C., Fisher, C, and Patel, A; 2019. Effects of Limb Morphology on Transient Locomotion in Quadruped Robots. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. IEEE (eCF Paper Id: ras.IROS19.2336.2da5a16c)
- Robertson, L.C., 2014. Unmanned Systems in the Military Training and Simulation Market. Frost & Sullivan
- Robertson, L.C., 2013. Emerging Applications for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Across Global Government and Commercial Sectors. Frost & Sullivan
- Robertson, L.C., 2013. Evaluation of a Custom-Built ECU for Non-Standard Testing of a Laboratory Gas Turbine. Mechanical, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering Conference, pp. 52-53.
- Robertson, L.C., 2012. Development of an electronic control unit for a T-63 Gas Turbine. Mechanical, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering Conference, pp. 75-76.
Research Interests:
- Bio-inspired engineering
- Mobile robotics
- Industrial robotics and automation