William Foster-Hall
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering and Information Technology
William is a final year PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. His research area is at the intersection of soft robotics, continuum mechanics and space robotics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a graduate of the International Space University and was a visiting researcher at NASA JPL Caltech under the JVSRP during his PhD. He has supervised a total of 21 honours students, developed and lectured space-centric course material and held teaching positions within the university for the last five years.
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Foster-Hall, W., Harvey, D. J., Yin, L., & Akmeliawati, R. (2025). Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Cryogenic Performance of Modular Metallic Cable Structures.. Soft Robot, 10 pages. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Foster-Hall, W., Harvey, D., & Akmeliawati, R. (2024). Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Towards a Family of Locomotion Platforms. In ROBOSOFT 2024 (pp. 698-704). San Diego: IEEE Xplore. DOI Scopus5 WoS4 |
| 2024 | King, T., Craggs, J., Coates, B., Akmeliawati, R., Mistry, A., Pillay, V., . . . Foster-Hall, W. (2024). Bio-inspired Legged Robot for Space Exploration. In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Vol. 1248 LNEE (pp. 77-87). Adelaide, South Australia: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI |
| 2022 | Foster-Hall, W., Harvey, D., & Akmeliawati, R. (2022). System Identification of a Non-Linear Soft Robotic Limb. In The 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ICIUS). Tokushima, Japan. |
| 2020 | Cartwright, J., Foster-Hall, W., Tam, W., Vinod, H., & Akmeliawati, R. (2020). Effect of flapping-frequency on attitude estimation of a tailless flapping-Wing micro air vehicle. In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2020) Vol. 2020-December (pp. 1-8). online: Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA). |
Teaching Assistant/Tutor
- Modern Control Systems (2022 & 2024)
- Design Practice (2022 - 2024)
- Thermo-Fluids I (2024)
- Microcontroller Programming (2019 - 2023)
- Advanced Digital Control (2021)
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Location | Program | Supervision Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 - 2023 | Co-Supervisor | Lunar Snake Robot Development: 2023 | The University of Adelaide | Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) | Honours | Full Time | Madison Byass, Cameron Hancock & Jacob Gohra. |
| 2022 - 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Bio-Inspired Legged Robot for Space Exploration | The University of Adelaide | Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) | Honours | Full Time | Bailey Coates, Jaxon Craggs, Timothy King, Akshay Mistry, Vishwajit Pillay & Andy Tran. |
| 2022 - 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Lunar Snake Robot Development: 2022 | The University of Adelaide | Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) | Honours | Full Time | Andre Repanich, Angus Rana & Jack Carruthers. |
| 2021 - 2021 | Co-Supervisor | Lunar Crater Exploration | The University of Adelaide | Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering | Honours | Full Time | Simon Lieu, Tahmid Hossain, Daniel Kilonzo & Akhlak Rahman. |
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