Published Works
Papers & Articles
March 2022
2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO)
Helicopter and Rover Operations on Mars using the Robot Sequencing and Visualization Program (RSVP)
Justin Koch, Garrett Johnson, Nicholas Wiltsie, Frank Hartman, Farah Alibay, Jeng Yen
Nov 2024
Preprint Article
StableLift: Optimized Germline and Somatic Variant Detection Across Genome Builds
Nicholas K Wang, Nicholas Wiltsie, Helena K Winata, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, Alfredo E Gonzalez, Nicole Zeltser, Raag Agrawal, Jieun Oh, Jaron Arbet, Yash Patel, Takafumi N Yamaguchi, Paul C Boutros
Apr 2025
Preprint Article
Metapipeline-DNA: A Comprehensive Germline & Somatic Genomics Nextflow Pipeline
Yash Patel, Chenghao Zhu, Takafumi N Yamaguchi, Nicholas K Wang, Nicholas Wiltsie, Nicole Zeltser, Alfredo E Gonzalez, Helena K Winata, Yu Pan, Mohammed Faizal Eeman Mootor, Timothy Sanders, Sorel T Fitz-Gibbon, Cyriac Kandoth, Julie Livingstone, Lydia Y Liu, Benjamin Carlin, Aaron Holmes, Jieun Oh, John Sahrmann, Shu Tao, Stefan Eng, Rupert Hugh-White, Kiarod Pashminehazar, Andrew Park, Arpi Beshlikyan, Madison Jordan, Selina Wu, Mao Tian, Jaron Arbet, Beth Neilsen, Roni Haas, Yuan Zhe Bugh, Gina Kim, Joseph Salmingo, Wenshu Zhang, Aakarsh Anand, Edward Hwang, Anna Neiman-Golden, Philippa Steinberg, Wenyan Zhao, Prateek Anand, Raag Agrawal, Brandon L Tsai, Paul C Boutros
Sep 2017
AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition
Maturing Microspine Grippers for Space Applications through Test Campaigns
Aaron Parness, Thomas Evans, William Raff, Jonathan King, Kalind Carpenter, Andrew Willig, Jesse Grimes-York, Andrew Berg, Edward Fouad and Nicholas Wiltsie
May 2017
2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
LEMUR 3: A limbed climbing robot for extreme terrain mobility in space
Aaron Parness, Neil Abcouwer, Christine Fuller, Nicholas Wiltsie, Jeremy Nash, Brett Kennedy:
Mar 2016
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
A robotic approach to mapping post-eruptive volcanic fissure conduits
Carolyn E. Parcheta, Catherine A. Pavlov, Nicholas Wiltsie, Kalind C. Carpenter, Jeremy Nash, Aaron Parness, Karl L. Mitchell
Jan 2015
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Rotary Microspine Rough Surface Mobility
Kalind Carpenter; Nick Wiltsie; Aaron Parness
Sep 2013
AIAA 2013-5409
Gravity Independent Climbing Robot: Technology Demonstration and Mission Scenario Development
Aaron Parness, Matthew Frost, Nicholas Wiltsie, Jonathan P. King, Nittish Thatte, Kevin Witkoe, Moises Nevarez, Hrand Aghazarian, Michael Garrett and Brett Kennedy
Oct 2015
66rd International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel
Zero Gravity Robotic Mobility Experiments with Electrostatic and Gecko-Like Adhesives Aboard NASA’s Zero Gravity Airplane
Aaron Parness, Russell Smith, Christine Fuller, Nicholas Wiltsie, Simon Kalouche, Donald Ruffatto, Mohammad Dadkhah, Jaakko Karras, Kalind Carpenter, Matthew Spenko
Aug 2014
AIAA SPACE 2014 Conference and Exposition
Sampling System Concepts for a Touch-and-Go Architecture Comet Surface Sample Return Mission
Paul G. Backes, Christopher Mcquin, Mircea Badescu, Anthony Ganino, Nicholas Wiltsie, Scott Moreland, Phillip Walkemeyer, Charles Dandino, Russell Smith, Michael Williamson, Dennis Wai, Robert Bonitz, Miguel San Martin, Brian Wilcox
Sep 2014
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014)
Inchworm Style Gecko Adhesive Climbing Robot
Simon Kalouche, Nick Wiltsie, Hai-Jun Su, and Aaron Parness
2013
2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Characteristics of controllable adhesion using magneto-rheological fluid and its application to climbing robotics.
Masaaki Watanabe, Nicholas Wiltsie, Anette E. Hosoi, Karl Iagnemma