William Robertson
Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
Dr. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide Dr. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide
Research Interest
Magnetodynamics My primary research interest relates to developing methods for the design and analysis of electromagnetic systems used in dynamic systems; I use the term ‘magnetodynamics’ for this. These methods generally relate to deriving closed form or semi-analytical models for calculating forces and torques between magnets and electromagnets. At a more applied level I take these methods and use them to analyse magnetodynamic systems; projects include magnetically levitated vibration isolation mounts, maglev elevators, levitating (bearing-free) magnetic motors, nonlinear energy harvesting devices, and so on. Biomechanics My interests in biomechanics centre around the dynamic simulation of human movement, which encompasses a broad set of sub-disciplines including musculoskeletal modelling, inverse kinematics and dynamics optimisations, motor control, and body segment parameter estimation. We have developed a fast and low-cost method for 3D scanning the human body, which generates data for estimating properties such as mass, centroid, and moment of inertia for the individual segments of a participant in the lab.
