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:

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