| 2015 | FIE | Initial investigation into engineering students problem solving within controls. | Jessica E. S. Swenson, Ethan Danahy, William C. Messner |
| 2007 | ACC | Distributed Manipulation with an Actuator Array and Vision Feedback. | Mark Bedillion, William C. Messner |
| 2007 | ACC | Loop Shaping with the Circle Criterion-Bode Plot with Application to Active Tape Steering. | Lu Xia, William C. Messner |
| 2003 | ICRA | Integrated modeling and robust control for full-envelope flight of robotic helicopters. | Marco La Civita, George Papageorgiou, William C. Messner, Takeo Kanade |
| 2003 | IROS | Distributed manipulation with stick-slip contact. | Mark Bedillion, William C. Messner |
| 2002 | WAFR | Distributed Manipulation with Rolling Contact. | Mark Bedillion, William C. Messner |
| 2001 | IROS | Limitations imposed by single DOF actuators on discrete actuator arrays. | Mark Bedillion, William C. Messner, Howie Choset |
| 2000 | ICRA | Closed-Loop Operation of Actuator Arrays. | Jonathan E. Luntz, William C. Messner, Howie Choset |
| 1999 | ICRA | Discrete Actuator Array Vectorfield Design for Distributed Manipulation. | Jonathan E. Luntz, William C. Messner, Howie Choset |
| 1999 | ICRA | Open-Loop Orientability of Objects on Actuator Arrays. | Jonathan E. Luntz, William C. Messner, Howie Choset |
| 1997 | ICRA | Parcel manipulation and dynamics with a distributed actuator array: the virtual vehicle. | Jonathan E. Luntz, William C. Messner, Howie Choset |
| 1990 | ICRA | A new adaptive learning rule. | William C. Messner, Roberto Horowitz, Wei-Wen Kao, Michael Boals |