A new adaptive learning rule. - William C. Messner; Roberto Horowitz; Wei-Wen Kao; Michael Boals (ICRA, 1990)

Parcel manipulation and dynamics with a distributed actuator array: the virtual vehicle. - Jonathan E. Luntz; William C. Messner; Howie Choset (ICRA, 1997)

Controller development for a prototype high-speed low-tension tape transport. - Priyadarshee D. Mathur; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 1998)

Discrete Actuator Array Vectorfield Design for Distributed Manipulation. - Jonathan E. Luntz; William C. Messner; Howie Choset (ICRA, 1999)

Open-Loop Orientability of Objects on Actuator Arrays. - Jonathan E. Luntz; William C. Messner; Howie Choset (ICRA, 1999)

The development, properties, and application of the complex phase lead compensator. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2000)

Closed-Loop Operation of Actuator Arrays. - Jonathan E. Luntz; William C. Messner; Howie Choset (ICRA, 2000)

Multiple Center of Mass Space Images of Single Objects and Their Impact on Path Planning. - William R. Doggett; William C. Messner; Jer-Nan Juang (Int. J. Robotics Res., 2000)

Global minimization of the robot base reaction force during 3-D maneuvers. - William R. Doggett; William C. Messner; Jer-Nan Juang (IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom., 2000)

Disturbance observer design for tape transport control. - Yan Lu; William C. Messner (ACC, 2001)

A tutorial on controls for disk drives. - William C. Messner; Rick Ehrlich (ACC, 2001)

Loop shaping controller design using the sbode plot. - William C. Messner; Hadas Shragai (ACC, 2001)

Limitations imposed by single DOF actuators on discrete actuator arrays. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner; Howie Choset (IROS, 2001)

Distributed Manipulation Using Discrete Actuator Arrays. - Jonathan E. Luntz; William C. Messner; Howie Choset (Int. J. Robotics Res., 2001)

Loop shaping with closed-loop magnitude contours on the Bode plot. - S. Craig Smith; William C. Messner (ACC, 2002)

Distributed Manipulation with Rolling Contact. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (WAFR, 2002)

Design and flight testing of a gain-scheduled H∞ loop shaping controller for wide-envelope flight of a robotic helicopter. - Marco La Civita; George Papageorgiou; William C. Messner; Takeo Kanade (ACC, 2003)

Characterization of three servo patterns for position error signal generation in hard drives. - Eric C. Hughes; William C. Messner (ACC, 2003)

The multivariable circle criterion for switched continuous systems. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (CDC, 2003)

Higher order modeling of hysteresis in disk drive actuators. - Daniel Helmick; William C. Messner (CDC, 2003)

Integrated modeling and robust control for full-envelope flight of robotic helicopters. - Marco La Civita; George Papageorgiou; William C. Messner; Takeo Kanade (ICRA, 2003)

Distributed manipulation with stick-slip contact. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (IROS, 2003)

Phase stabilized design of a hard disk drive servo using the complex lag compensator. - William C. Messner; Roberto Oboe (ACC, 2004)

A platform for building PIC applications for control and instrumentation. - Brandon Kuczenski; Philip R. Leduc; William C. Messner (ACC, 2005)

Loop shaping for robust performance using Rbode plot. - Lu Xia; William C. Messner (ACC, 2005)

Trajectory tracking for actuator arrays. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (ACC, 2006)

A robust approach to high-speed navigation for unrehearsed desert terrain. - Chris Urmson; Charlie Ragusa; David Ray; Joshua Anhalt; Daniel Bartz; Tugrul Galatali; Alexander Gutierrez; Josh Johnston; Sam Harbaugh; Hiroki Kato; William C. Messner; Nick Miller; et al. (J. Field Robotics, 2006)

Distributed Manipulation with an Actuator Array and Vision Feedback. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (ACC, 2007)

Loop Shaping with the Circle Criterion-Bode Plot with Application to Active Tape Steering. - Lu Xia; William C. Messner (ACC, 2007)

Simultaneous control of a precision linear stage in multiple lubrication modes with the complex lag. - Daniel Helmick; William C. Messner (ACC, 2008)

An improved version of the RBode plot. - Lu Xia; William C. Messner (ACC, 2008)

Describing function analysis of Dahl model friction. - Daniel Helmick; William C. Messner (ACC, 2009)

Formulas for asymmetric lead and lag compensators. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2009)

Control for Actuator Arrays. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (Int. J. Robotics Res., 2009)

Loop-shaping controller design with the RBode plot for hard disk drives. - Takenori Atsumi; William C. Messner (ACC, 2010)

Active tape edge position control system. - Man Seong Kim; Iacopo Gentilini; William C. Messner (ACC, 2010)

Nonlinear modeling and control of a mechanically coupled variable resistance and squeeze pump for pressure regulation in microfluidics. - YongTae Kim; Philip R. Leduc; William C. Messner (ACC, 2010)

The decibel and Mr. Dow. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2010)

Nonlinear modeling of butterfly valves and flow rate control using the Circle Criterion Bode plot. - J. D. Taylor; Bruno Sinopoli; William C. Messner (ACC, 2010)

"Night Comes to the Cretaceous" and other tales of the decibel. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2011)

Controller design for nonlinear systems using the robust controller bode (RCBode) plot. - J. D. Taylor; William C. Messner (ACC, 2011)

Root locus design with Complex Proportional-Integral-Lead compensation. - Qi Zhang; William C. Messner (ACC, 2011)

Root locus design with CPISL compensation and the parallel inner loop form. - Yamuna Krishnamurthy; William C. Messner (ACC, 2012)

Loop-shaping controller design for nonlinear systems using the Contoured Robust Controller Bode (CRCBode) plot. - J. D. Taylor; Iacopo Gentilini; William C. Messner (ACC, 2012)

Modified Bode Plots for Robust Performance in SISO Systems With Structured and Unstructured Uncertainties. - Takenori Atsumi; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 2012)

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Advanced Servo Control for Emerging Data Storage Systems. - Giovanni Cherubini; Chung Choo Chung; William C. Messner; S. O. Reza Moheimani (IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 2012)

Control Methods in Data-Storage Systems. - Giovanni Cherubini; Chung Choo Chung; William C. Messner; S. O. Reza Moheimani (IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 2012)

Optimization of Head-Positioning Control in a Hard Disk Drive Using the RBode Plot. - Takenori Atsumi; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2012)

Analysis of Unobservable Oscillations in Sampled-Data Positioning Systems. - Takenori Atsumi; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2012)

Lateral Tape Motion Control With Robust Performance Evaluation Based on RBode Plot. - Iacopo Gentilini; Man Seong Kim; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2012)

Trajectory Tracking Control for Actuator Arrays. - Mark Bedillion; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 2013)

Modeling and Control of a Nonlinear Mechanism for High Performance Microfluidic Systems. - YongTae Kim; Philip R. Leduc; William C. Messner (IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 2013)

Loop-shaping for non-minimum phase systems using Contoured Robust Bode plots. - J. D. Taylor; William C. Messner (ACC, 2014)

Robust Bode controller design methods for unstable and non-minimum phase systems. - J. D. Taylor; William C. Messner (ACC, 2015)

Initial investigation into engineering students problem solving within controls. - Jessica Swenson; Ethan Danahy; William C. Messner (FIE, 2015)

Fin Ray® Effect Inspired Soft Robotic Gripper: From the RoboSoft Grand Challenge toward Optimization. - Whitney Crooks; Gabrielle Vukasin; Maeve O'Sullivan; William C. Messner; Chris Rogers (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2016)

Switched dual-actuator control for AFM subresonant tapping modes. - Piers M. Echols-Jones; Maxim E. Dokukin; Igor Sokolov; William C. Messner (ACC, 2017)

Improved Scanning Speed of AFM Subresonant Tapping Mode with Switched Dual-Actuator Control. - Piers M. Echols-Jones; Maxim E. Dokukin; Igor Sokolov; William C. Messner (ACC, 2018)

The Last Jedi: Step Response Identification of Overdamped Second Order Systems. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2018)

Flow Variable Coefficients: An Alternative to Lagrange's Equations and More. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2019)

Cartbot: A Direct-Manipulation Minimal Degrees-of-Freedom Mobile Assistive Robot to Maximize User Agency. - Kentaro Barhydt; Alphonsus Adu-Bredu; Sarah Everhart-Skeels; Gary Bedell; Karen Panetta; William C. Messner (ICHMS, 2020)

The design and development of Branch Bot: a branch-crawling, caterpillar-inspired, soft robot. - Shane Rozen-Levy; William C. Messner; Barry A. Trimmer (Int. J. Robotics Res., 2021)

The T26.4 Method for Step Response Identification of Overdamped 2nd Order Systems. - William C. Messner (ACC, 2023)

Dual Stage Control for Field Printer Robot. - Sohum Misra; Ryan Dimick; William C. Messner; Philipp Herget (CCTA, 2023)