W. L. Nelson

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

W. L. Nelson is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. L. Nelson has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in W. L. Nelson's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers), Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (5 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (4 papers). W. L. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers), Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (5 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (4 papers). W. L. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. W. L. Nelson's co-authors include Joseph S. Perkell, William Turin, Jiankun Hu, Ingemar J. Cox, John R. Westbury, Trevor Hastie, Ramanujan S. Kashi, Debasis Mitra, R.A. Boie and Jen‐Chia Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

W. L. Nelson

23 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Physical principles for economies of skilled movements

1983 597 citations W. L. Nelson Biological Cybernetics profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Simulation of a cartesian robot arm 2005 ·W. L. Nelson, Jen‐Chia Chang	1
2	Continuous-curvature paths for autonomous vehicles 2003 ·W. L. Nelson	138
3	Signature verification: benefits of multiple tries 2003 ·(unknown), W. L. Nelson	5
4	Local path control for an autonomous vehicle 2003 ·W. L. Nelson, Ingemar J. Cox	36
5	On-line handwritten signature verification using hidden Markov model features 2002 ·Ramanujan S. Kashi, Jiankun Hu, W. L. Nelson, William Turin	63
6	Use of dynamic features for signature verification 2002 ·W. L. Nelson, (unknown)	40
7	A Hidden Markov Model approach to online handwritten signature verification 1998 ·International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) ·(unknown), Jiankun Hu, W. L. Nelson, William Turin	49
8	STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ON-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION 1994 ·International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence ·W. L. Nelson, William Turin, Trevor Hastie	49
9	End-point sensing and load-adaptive control of a flexible robot arm 1985 ·W. L. Nelson, Debasis Mitra, R.A. Boie	11
10	Variability in production of the vowels /i/ and /a/ 1985 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·Joseph S. Perkell, W. L. Nelson	98
11	Relationships between articulatory and acoustic measurements from an x-ray microbeam study of variability in the production of the vowels /i/ and /a/ 1984 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·Joseph S. Perkell, W. L. Nelson	1
12	Mandible movements during increasingly rapid articulations of single syllables: Preliminary observations 1984 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·W. L. Nelson, Joseph S. Perkell, John R. Westbury	48
13	Physical principles for economies of skilled movements breakdown → 1983 ·Biological Cybernetics ·W. L. Nelson	597
14	Jaw movements during increasingly rapid articulations of single syllables: Implications on speech motor control 1982 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·W. L. Nelson, John R. Westbury	1
15	Performance bounds in speech motor control of jaw movements 1980 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·W. L. Nelson	7
16	Automatic alignment of a phonetic transcription with articulatory events from x-ray data of continuous speech utterances 1979 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·W. L. Nelson	1
17	An application of computer-aided design methods to the near-optimal control of a damped, second-order system 1967 ·IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control ·W. L. Nelson	2
18	Optimal control problems having identical solutions 1966 ·IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control ·(unknown), W. L. Nelson	4
19	On the use of optimization theory for practical control system design 1964 ·IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control ·W. L. Nelson	13
20	Phase-Lock Loop Design for Coherent Angle-Error Detection in the Telstar Satellite Tracking System 1963 ·Bell System Technical Journal ·W. L. Nelson	2

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