Climbing Robot Publications
S. Jensen-Segal, S. Virost, W.R. Provancher, “ROCR: Energy Efficient Vertical Wall Climbing with a Pendular Two-Link Mass-Shifting Robot”, Presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2008, Pacedena, CA, USA, May 19–23, 2008.
Asbeck, A. T., Kim, S., Cutkosky, M. R., Provancher, W. R , Lanzetta, M., “Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 25(12):1165–1179, December 2006.
Kellar Autumn, Martin Buehler, Mark Cutkosky, Ronald Fearing, Robert, Daniel Goldman, Richard Groff, William Provancher, Alfred Rizzi, Uluc Saranli, Aaron Saunders, Daniel Koditschek. “Robotics In Scansorial Environments,” in SPIE proceedings on Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII, Orlando, Florida, 2005, p. 291–302.
Kim, S., Asbeck, A. T., Cutkosky, M. R., and Provancher, W. R., “SpinybotII: Climbing Hard Walls with Compliant Microspines,” Presented at the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Seattle, Washington, 2005, p 601–606.
Asbeck, A. T., Kim, S., Cutkosky, M. R., Lanzetta, M., Provancher, W. R., “Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays,” Presented at Robotics Science and Systems, Cambridge, MA, 2005.
Provancher, W.R., Clark, J.E., Geisler, B., Cutkosky, M.R., “Towards Penetration-based Clawed Climbing,” Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2004), Madrid, Spain, September 22–24, 2004, p. 961–970.
Haptics Publications
Gleeson, B.T., Horschel, S.K., and Provancher, W. R., “Communication of Direction through Lateral Skin Stretch at the Fingertip,” In Proc. of the World Haptics Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, March, 2009, pp. 172–177. (Winner of Best Paper Award)
Horschel, S.K., Gleeson, B.T., and Provancher, W. R., “Fingertip Shear Tactile Display,” World Haptics Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, March, 2009, pp. 611–612.
Provancher, W.R., Erickson, B., Barbagli, F, Tan, H., “Tactile Perception of Rotational Sliding,” In Proc. of the 2nd Annual World Haptics Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, March 22–24, 2007, p. 127–132.
Sylvester, Nicholas D. and Provancher, William R., “Effects of Longitudinal Skin Stretch on the Perception of Friction,” In Proc. of the 2nd Annual World Haptics Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, March 22–24, 2007, p. 373–378.
William R. Provancher, Mark R. Cutkosky, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, and Günter Niemeyer. ”Contact Location Display for Haptic Perception of Curvature and Object Motion,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 24(9):691–702, September 2005.
Griffin, W.B., Provancher, W. R., and Cutkosky, M. R., “ Feedback Strategies for Telemanipulation with Shared Control of Object Handling Forces,” Presence : Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press, 14(6): 720–731, December 2005.
Kuchenbecker, K. J., Provancher, W. R., Niemeyer, G., and Cutkosky, M. R., “Haptic Display of Contact Location,” IEEE 12th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator System, Chicago, 2004, p. 40- 47.
Mark R. Cutkosky, Robert D. Howe, and William R. Provancher, “Force and Tactile Sensors,” Handbook of Robotics, Springer Publishing.
Gleeson, B., Provancher, W. R., “Toward Developing a Velocity Controlled Tactile Impact Display,” IEEE 16th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces For Virtual Environment And Teleoperator System, Chicago, 2008.
Provancher, William R. and Sylvester, Nicholas D., “Effects of Longitudinal Skin Stretch on the Perception of Friction,” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Aug. 2008, pp. 11. (Submitted)
Provancher, W. R., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Niemeyer, G., and Cutkosky, M. R., “Perception of Curvature and Object Motion via Contact Location Feedback,” Proc. of the Intl. Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR2003), Siena, Italy, 2003, p. 456–465.
Griffin, W. B., Provancher, W. R., and Cutkosky, M. R., “Feedback Strategies for Shared Control in Dexterous Telemanipulation,” Proc. of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2003), Las Vegas, 2003, p. 2791–2796.
Provancher, W. R. and Cutkosky, M. R., “Sensing Local Geometry for Dexterous Manipulation,” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER2002), Sant’Angelo d’Ischia, Italy, 2002, pp. 507–516.
Other Publications
Clark, J. E., Provancher, W. R., Mitiguy, P. “Theory, Simulation, And Hardware: Lab Design For An Integrated System Dynamics Education,” In Proc. of ASME IMECE, Orlando, FL, Nov. 5–11, 2005, p 147–153.
Provancher, W. R. and Ghosh, A. K. “High Temperature Mechanical Behavior of NB5Si3/Nb Laminates,” Proc. of Materials Research Society Symp. Boston, MA, v. 364, Oct. 1994, pp. 1071–76.
Provancher, W. R , Mechanical Behavior of Nb5Si3/Nb Laminates and their Constituents, Masters Thesis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering: University of Michigan, 1995.
Theses
Provancher, W. R., On Tactile Sensing and Display, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering: Stanford University, 2003.
