William T. Townsend

The BarrettHand grasper – programmably flexible part handling and assembly

William T. Townsend · Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application · 2000 · 421 citations

Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Robotics Engineering +17

Preliminary design of a whole-arm manipulation system (WAMS)

K. Salisbury, William T. Townsend, B. Ebrman et al. · 2003 · 229 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering +15

The Effect of coulomb friction and stiction on force control

William T. Townsend, J. Kenneth Salisbury · 2005 · 161 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering +17

Teleoperator slave ‐ WAM design methodology

William T. Townsend, Jeffrey A. Guertin · Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application · 1999 · 68 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering +17

The design and control of an experimental whole-arm manipulator

Kenneth Salisbury, Brian Eberman, Michael Levin et al. · International Symposium on Robotics · 1991 · 54 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering +12