William E. Heap

According to our database, William E. Heap authored at least 6 papers between 2021 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Self-Wearing Adaptive Garments via Soft Robotic Unfurling.

Nam Gyun Kim, William E. Heap, Yimeng Qin, Elvy B. Yao, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Allison M. Okamura

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., January, 2026

2025

A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection.

William E. Heap, Yimeng Qin, Kai Hammond, Anish Bayya, Haonon Kong, Allison M. Okamura

CoRR, October, 2025

Large-Scale Vine Robots for Industrial Inspection: Developing a New Framework to Overcome Limitations With Existing Inspection Methods.

William E. Heap, Steven Man, Vedad Bassari, Steven Nguyen, Elvy B. Yao, Neel A. Tripathi, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Elliot W. Hawkes

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., September, 2025

3D Steering and Localization in Pipes and Burrows using an Externally Steered Soft Growing Robot.

Yimeng Qin, Jared Grinberg, William E. Heap, Allison M. Okamura

CoRR, July, 2025

2022

Miniature, Lightweight, High-Force, Capstan Winch for Mobile Robots.

William E. Heap, Chris T. Keeley, Elvy B. Yao, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Elliot W. Hawkes

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

2021

Soft Retraction Device and Internal Camera Mount for Everting Vine Robots.

William E. Heap, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Margaret M. Coad, Sang-Goo Jeong, Elliot W. Hawkes

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021