2026 Howie Choset: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	78	1179	1140	625	601	502	29908
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	80	514	494	237	223	511	30442

Overview

Howie Choset is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with substantial contributions to subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, including:

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Robotic Locomotion and Control
Soft Robotics and Applications
Robot Manipulation and Learning

Several recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Howie Choset include:

"Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases," 2020, Science Robotics
"Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions," 2022, Proceedings of the IEEE
"Autonomous Exploration Development Environment and the Planning Algorithms," 2022, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
"A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition," 2021, Foundations and Trends in Robotics
"Surprising simplicities and syntheses in limbless self-propulsion in sand," 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

Frequent co-authors of Howie Choset include Zhongqiang Ren, Sivakumar Rathinam, Matthew Travers, Julian Whitman, and Sebastian Scherer. These collaborations reflect sustained research partnerships, with multiple joint publications.

The scientist's research has been published extensively in specific venues, with notable frequency in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Best Publications

Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations

Howie M. Choset;Jean-Claude Latombe

3909
Citations
Coverage for robotics – A survey of recent results

Howie Choset

1569
Citations
Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey

Jessica Burgner-Kahrs;D. Caleb Rucker;Howie Choset

1553
Citations
Topological simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM): toward exact localization without explicit localization

H. Choset;K. Nagatani

949
Citations
Coverage Path Planning: The Boustrophedon Cellular Decomposition

Howie Choset;Philippe Pignon

761
Citations
Coverage of Known Spaces: The Boustrophedon Cellular Decomposition

Howie Choset

626
Citations
Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases.

Guang-Zhong Yang;Bradley J. Nelson;Robin R. Murphy;Howie Choset

550
Citations
Search and Rescue Robotics

Robin R. Murphy;Satoshi Tadokoro;Daniele Nardi;Adam Jacoff

461
Citations
Sensor-Based Exploration: The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph

Howie Choset;Joel W. Burdick

437
Citations
Subdimensional Expansion for Multirobot Path Planning

Glenn Wagner;Howie Choset

399
Citations
Morse Decompositions for Coverage Tasks

Ercan U. Acar;Howie Choset;Alfred A. Rizzi;Prasad N. Atkar

394
Citations
PRIMAL: Pathfinding via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning

Guillaume Sartoretti;Justin Kerr;Yunfei Shi;Glenn Wagner

385
Citations
Design of a modular snake robot

C. Wright;A. Johnson;A. Peck;Z. McCord

353
Citations
Path Planning for Robotic Demining: Robust Sensor-Based Coverage of Unstructured Environments and Probabilistic Methods

Ercan U. Acar;Howie Choset;Yangang Zhang;Mark J. Schervish

322
Citations
Design and architecture of the unified modular snake robot

Cornell Wright;Austin Buchan;Ben Brown;Jason Geist

314
Citations
Highly articulated robotic probe for minimally invasive surgery

A. Degani;H. Choset;A. Wolf;M.A. Zenati

309
Citations
Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions

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303
Citations
Sidewinding with minimal slip: Snake and robot ascent of sandy slopes

Hamidreza Marvi;Chaohui Gong;Nick Gravish;Henry Astley

298
Citations
A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

Jeffrey Aguilar;Tingnan Zhang;Feifei Qian;Mark Kingsbury

295
Citations
Parameterized and Scripted Gaits for Modular Snake Robots

Matthew Tesch;Kevin Lipkin;Isaac Brown;Ross L. Hatton

289
Citations
Limited communication, multi-robot team based coverage

I. Rekleitis;V. Lee-Shue;Ai Peng New;H. Choset

283
Citations
M*: A complete multirobot path planning algorithm with performance bounds

Glenn Wagner;Howie Choset

259
Citations
Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementation ERRATA!!!! 1

Howie Choset;Kevin Lynch;Seth Hutchinson;George Kantor

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred A. Rizzi Boston Dynamics (United States)

Daniel I. Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology

William C. Messner Tufts University

Nabil Simaan Vanderbilt University

Matthew T. Mason Carnegie Mellon University

Ioannis Rekleitis University of South Carolina

Sven Koenig University of Southern California

Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington

Gregory S. Chirikjian University of Delaware

Jeff Schneider Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

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