William McMahan

1.8k total citations
21 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

William McMahan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William McMahan has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in William McMahan's work include Soft Robotics and Applications (12 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (9 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (7 papers). William McMahan is often cited by papers focused on Soft Robotics and Applications (12 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (9 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (7 papers). William McMahan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Italy. William McMahan's co-authors include Ian D. Walker, Bryan A. Jones, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Vilas K. Chitrakaran, Michael D. Grissom, M. Csencsits, Christopher D. Rahn, D. Dawson, David I. Lee and Alexei Wedmid and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Surgical Endoscopy and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

In The Last Decade

William McMahan

21 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William McMahan United States 16 987 571 540 179 137 21 1.2k
Mohsen Mahvash United States 17 824 0.8× 381 0.7× 550 1.0× 178 1.0× 59 0.4× 25 1.2k
David L. Christensen United States 20 772 0.8× 280 0.5× 452 0.8× 206 1.2× 88 0.6× 44 1.4k
Peter Berkelman United States 19 594 0.6× 326 0.6× 329 0.6× 206 1.2× 64 0.5× 55 1.1k
Nadia Cheng United States 11 676 0.7× 288 0.5× 384 0.7× 153 0.9× 123 0.9× 12 928
Tania K. Morimoto United States 15 560 0.6× 177 0.3× 337 0.6× 73 0.4× 176 1.3× 51 741
Barrett Heyneman United States 9 766 0.8× 351 0.6× 386 0.7× 128 0.7× 48 0.4× 12 1.1k
Andrew H. Gosline United States 12 490 0.5× 221 0.4× 236 0.4× 81 0.5× 106 0.8× 21 658
Sina Sareh United Kingdom 15 626 0.6× 189 0.3× 247 0.5× 133 0.7× 110 0.8× 34 829
Mark A. Minor United States 20 847 0.9× 674 1.2× 412 0.8× 105 0.6× 73 0.5× 97 1.5k
Agostino Stilli United Kingdom 15 769 0.8× 318 0.6× 225 0.4× 80 0.4× 150 1.1× 42 898

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All Works

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Gomez, Ernest, Rajesh Aggarwal, William McMahan, Karlin Bark, & Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. (2015). Objective assessment of robotic surgical skill using instrument contact vibrations. Surgical Endoscopy. 30(4). 1419–1431. 23 indexed citations
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McMahan, William & Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. (2014). Dynamic modeling and control of voice-coil actuators for high-fidelity display of haptic vibrations. 115–122. 28 indexed citations
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Booth, Warren, et al.. (2014). New insights on facultative parthenogenesis in pythons. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 112(3). 461–468. 34 indexed citations
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Gomez, Ernest, William McMahan, Daniel A. Hashimoto, et al.. (2013). Haptic feedback of instrument vibrations improves performance during robotic surgical simulation: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 217(3). S65–S66. 1 indexed citations
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McMahan, William, Ernest Gomez, Liting Chen, et al.. (2013). A practical system for recording instrument interactions during live robotic surgery. Journal of Robotic Surgery. 7(4). 351–358. 6 indexed citations
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Bark, Karlin, William McMahan, Austin C. Remington, et al.. (2012). In vivo validation of a system for haptic feedback of tool vibrations in robotic surgery. Surgical Endoscopy. 27(2). 656–664. 43 indexed citations
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Gomez, Ernest, Karlin Bark, William McMahan, et al.. (2012). Construct validity of instrument vibrations as a measure of robotic surgical skill. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 215(3). S119–S120. 3 indexed citations
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McMahan, William, et al.. (2011). ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS INSPIRED BY CEPHALOPOD LIMBS. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA). 47 indexed citations
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McMahan, William, et al.. (2011). Tool Contact Acceleration Feedback for Telerobotic Surgery. IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 4(3). 210–220. 96 indexed citations
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McMahan, William, Joseph M. Romano, Abdul Abdul Rahuman, & Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. (2010). High frequency acceleration feedback significantly increases the realism of haptically rendered textured surfaces. 141–148. 49 indexed citations
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McMahan, William & Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. (2009). Haptic display of realistic tool contact via dynamically compensated control of a dedicated actuator. 3170–3177. 28 indexed citations
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McMahan, William & Ian D. Walker. (2009). Octopus-inspired grasp-synergies for continuum manipulators. 945–950. 56 indexed citations
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McMahan, William & Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. (2009). Displaying realistic contact accelerations via a dedicated vibration actuator. 613–614. 5 indexed citations
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Jones, Bryan A., William McMahan, Vilas K. Chitrakaran, et al.. (2007). OctArm - A soft robotic manipulator. 2569–2569. 51 indexed citations
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McMahan, William, Vilas K. Chitrakaran, M. Csencsits, et al.. (2006). Field trials and testing of the OctArm continuum manipulator. 2336–2341. 349 indexed citations
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Grissom, Michael D., Vilas K. Chitrakaran, Bryan A. Jones, et al.. (2006). Design and experimental testing of the OctArm soft robot manipulator. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6230. 62301F–62301F. 105 indexed citations
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Jones, Bryan A., William McMahan, & Ian D. Walker. (2006). Practical kinematics for real-time implementation of continuum robots. 2. 1840–1847. 33 indexed citations
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Csencsits, M., William McMahan, Vilas K. Chitrakaran, et al.. (2006). Field Experiments with the OctArm Continuum Manipulator. 10–10. 4 indexed citations
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McMahan, William, Bryan A. Jones, & Ian D. Walker. (2005). Design and implementation of a multi-section continuum robot: Air-Octor. 2578–2585. 186 indexed citations
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Jones, Bryan A., William McMahan, & Ian D. Walker. (2004). Design and Analysis of a Novel Pneumatic Manipulator. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 37(14). 687–692. 46 indexed citations

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