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William Provancher - Assistant Professor

Publications

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.

Griffin, W.B., Provancher, W. R., and Cutkosky, M. R., Feedback Strategies for Telemanipulation with Shared Control of Object Handling Forces, Accepted to Presence May, 2005.

Provancher, W. R., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Niemeyer, G., and Cutkosky, M. R., . Contact Location Display for Haptic Perception of Curvature and Object Motion , to appear in the Special Issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) , September, 2005.

Refereed Conference Publications

Clark, J. E., Provancher, W. R., Mitiguy, P. Theory, Simulation, And Hardware: Lab Design For An Integrated System Dynamics Education, To be presented at ASME IMECE, Orlando, FL, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

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.

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.

Provancher, W.R., Clark, J.E., Geisler, B., Cutkosky, M.R., Towards Penetration-based Clawed Climbing, Presented at the 7th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2004), Madrid, Spain, September 22-24, 2004.

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.

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.

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.

Provancher, W. R. and Cutkosky, M. R., Sensing Local Geometry for Dexterous Manipulation. In Proc. of the Intl. Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER2002), Sant’Angelo d’Ischia, Italy, 2002, pp. 507-516.

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.

Provisional Patents

W.R. Provancher, “Compact Shear Tactile Display System”, July, 2007.

W.R. Provancher and M.R. Cutkosky, “Haptic Contact Location Feedback Device”, March 2003.

Theses

Provancher, W. R., On Tactile Sensing and Display, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering: Stanford University, 2003.

Provancher, W. R , Mechanical Behavior of Nb₅Si₃/Nb Laminates and their Constituents, Masters Thesis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering: University of Michigan, 1995.