Meet Our Members

Principal Investigators

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A/Prof. Amir Patel

Director: ARU
Bio-Inspired Robotics, Biomechanics

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Robyn Verrinder

Senior Lecturer
Autonomous Marine Systems

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Dr. Paul Amayo

Senior Lecturer
Computer Vision,
Robotic Perception, Autonomous Vehicles

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Dr. Joyce Mwangama

Senior Lecturer
Communications Networks

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Dr. Stacey Shield

Lecturer
Trajectory Optimization & Simulation of Legged Locomotion

Collaborators

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Prof. Edward Boje

Professor
Control Systems and Mechatronics

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A/Prof. Fred Nicolls

Associate Professor
Image & Signal Processing, Computer Vision

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Matt Church

Chief Technical Officer
Localization

PhD Candidates

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Leanne Raw

PhD Candidate, Senior Lecturer
The Effects of Leg Morphology on Rapid Acceleration in Quadrupeds Systems and Mechatronics

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Naoya Muramatsu

PhD Candidate
On the Neuromechanics of the Cheetah: Head-stabilization and Tracking of the Cheetah

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Boitumelo Dikoko

PhD Candidate, Lecturer
Lightweight Multi-Session and Multi-Robot Mapping

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James Hepworth

Senior Lecturer
Communications Networks

MSc Candidates

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Joshua Harford

MSc Candidate
Trajectory optimization

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Tristyn Ferreiro

MSc Candidate
Sea Ice characteristics extraction using SAR satellite images

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Daniel Jones

MSc Candidate
Development and testing of a multi-modal sensor suite to observe ice in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) of Antarctica

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Damien Schutz

MSc Candidate
Understanding the cheetah tail using inverse optimal control

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David Sephton-Poultney

MSc Candidate
Sea ice field characteristic extraction using LIDAR

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Heather Wimberley

MSc Candidate
Control of bounding on hybrid pneumatic-electric quadruped

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Dean Makoni

MSc Candidate
Investigation into Marin Robotics

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Gavin Foster

MSc Candidate
Modelling and developing a comprehensive walk and run cycle for a planar bipedal robot

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Kamryn Norton

MSc Candidate
Head-tracking and stabilization of the cheetah

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Zaheer Dhunny

MSc Candidate
Harbour mapping using an unmanned surface vessel

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Zubair Martin

MSc Candidate
Investigating the role of arms in biped robots (practically implementing an appendage to a biped to improve stabilization)

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Immanuel Nanyaro

MSc Candidate
Vision only socially compliant navigation

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Gerald Maswoswere

MSc Candidate
WildPose V3: Investigation into a long-range 3D motion capture system

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Aidie Winter

MSc Candidate
Ship Hull Inspection through Underwater 3D Reconstruction

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Agoritsa Spirakis

MSc Candidate
Investigation into the characterisation of pancake sea ice surface roughness using LiDAR and cameras

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Umutesa Munyurangabo

MSc Candidate
Investigation into Vision-Only socially compliant navigation robot

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Azraa Vally

MSc Candidate
DeepTrap: Remote Vital Signs Monitoring of Wildlife Using Low-cost Thermal Cameras

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Shalom Abiodun

MSc Candidate
Spine design for a rapidly accelerating quadruped robot

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Kauthar Du Toit

MSc Candidate
Using mmWave radar to remotely monitor muscle activity

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Ché Habib

MSc Candidate
Multi-animal vital sign monitoring using radar

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Sebastian Haug

MSc Candidate
Radar odometry for long-term robot navigation on the Voyager robot

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Venny Hsiao

MSc Candidate
Active perception on an unmanned surface vehicle using neural implicit maps

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Kian Li Wan Po

MSc Candidate
Electric Impedance Tomogrophy

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Thabisa Maweni

MSc Candidate
Visual teach and repeat algorithm/system for navigation of autonomous mobile robots

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Tshiamo Motaung

MSc Candidate
Synthetic animal pose data generation

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Adam Mukuddem

MSc Candidate
3D scene graphs for agriculture and marine environment

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Anand Nair

MSc Candidate
Modelling the wave induced dynamics of pancake ice in the Southern Ocean

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Vuyo Ndayi

MSc Candidate
The effect and mitigation of adverse environmental conditions on container (un)loading operability in the Port of CPT

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Zuhayr Parker

MSc Candidate
Contact and dynamic estimation of cheetahs in the wild

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Theon Smith

MSc Candidate
Modelling the interplay between ice floes and ocean wave behavior in the Antarctic marginal ice zone

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Ritvik Sojen

MSc Candidate
Neural methods for robotic mapping of large-scale marine environments

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John Adam Speed-Andrews

MSc Candidate
Long term navigation of ground robots

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Sarah Tallack

MSc Candidate
Photo-synthetically available radiance (PAR) measurement

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Jacques Van Wyk

MSc Candidate
In-situ sensor platform for detection and monitoring of pollution events

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Dylan White

MSc Candidate
Investigation into the application of Synthetic Aperture Radar for ice depth and structure sensing

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Mpilonhle Zondi

MSc Candidate
Keyframe-based LiDER SLAM

Alumni: PhD Graduates

Arnold Pretorius

(currently: Lecturer, University of Cape)

Yashren Reddi

(currently: Embedded Software Engineer, Lightyear)

Callen Fisher

(currently: Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch)

Alumni: MSc Graduates

Alexander Knemeyer

(currently: Software Engineer, Kopernikus Automotive)

Josh van Zyl

(currently: Hardware Development Engineer, S-PLANE)

Liam Clark

(currently: Computer Engineer, Mineral Services Engineering)

Do Yeou Ku

(currently: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services)

Alexander Blom

(currently: Embedded Software Engineer, Lightyear)

Nirav Domah

(currently: Senior Software Engineer, Digiata Technology Services)

Tinashe Gwatiringa

(currently: Head of Hardware Engineering, Lumkani)

Javaad Patel

(currently: Senior Backend Developer, SnappCar)

Gevashkar Rampersadh

(currently: Lecturer, University of Cape)

Divij Soobhug

(currently: Electrical Engineer, ARUP)

Nicholas von Klemperer

(currently: Device Team Engineering Manager, Aruba)