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Researcher · Barrett Technology (United States) · United States

William T. Townsend

William T. Townsend publishes mostly in Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Robot Manipulation and Learning, Teleoperation and Haptic Systems and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,416,801
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#446,976
of 1,627,098
Works
37
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
33.5
h-index
13
i10-index 14Top 27% in Control and Systems Engineering
William T. Townsend

What does William T. Townsend research?

William T. Townsend's work is mostly in Engineering (69%).

Physical Sciences: 26 works · 69.3% of their workEngineering: 26 works · 69.3% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 10 works · 27.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 5 works · 13.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 11.4% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 works · 6.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 5.7% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 2 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 30.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam T.Townsend37works
Physical Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2669.3%
  2. Everything else1130.7%
  1. 1Control and Systems Engineering27% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Automotive Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William T. Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Grasping, Robot Learning, Robotic Manipulators, Haptic Interfaces, Teleoperation, Kinematic Analysis, Robot Manipulators and Assembly Planning.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Grasping131 topic
  2. Robot Learning131 topic
  3. Robotic Manipulators132 topics
  4. Haptic Interfaces101 topic
  5. Teleoperation101 topic
  6. Kinematic Analysis61 topic
  7. Robot Manipulators61 topic
  8. Assembly Planning41 topic
  9. Design for Manufacture41 topic
  10. 3D Printing31 topic
  11. Additive Manufacturing31 topic
  12. Bioinspired Robotics31 topic
  13. Electromyography31 topic
  14. Muscle Fatigue31 topic
  15. Soft Robotics31 topic
  16. Detonation Propulsion21 topic
  17. Pulse Detonation Engines21 topic

Where does William T. Townsend work?

William T. Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is Barrett Technology (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does William T. Townsend have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 1,239 citations for William T. Townsend, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,416,801 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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