Will Robertson
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
As a mechatronics graduate with a PhD in magnetic levitation and vibration isolation, having taught biomechanics and sports engineering, my research areas of interest span a wide range. 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.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
