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Computer Science

D-Index
78
Citations
29908
World Ranking
1179
National Ranking
625

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
80
Citations
30442
World Ranking
514
National Ranking
237

Howie Choset publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howie Choset sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 511 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Howie Choset D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howie Choset sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 263 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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

  • Coverage for robotics – A survey of recent results

    Howie Choset

  • Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey

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

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

    H. Choset;K. Nagatani

  • Coverage Path Planning: The Boustrophedon Cellular Decomposition

    Howie Choset;Philippe Pignon

  • Coverage of Known Spaces: The Boustrophedon Cellular Decomposition

    Howie Choset

  • 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

  • Search and Rescue Robotics

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

  • Sensor-Based Exploration: The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph

    Howie Choset;Joel W. Burdick

  • Subdimensional Expansion for Multirobot Path Planning

    Glenn Wagner;Howie Choset

  • Morse Decompositions for Coverage Tasks

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

  • PRIMAL: Pathfinding via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning

    Guillaume Sartoretti;Justin Kerr;Yunfei Shi;Glenn Wagner

  • Design of a modular snake robot

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

  • 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

  • Design and architecture of the unified modular snake robot

    Cornell Wright;Austin Buchan;Ben Brown;Jason Geist

  • Highly articulated robotic probe for minimally invasive surgery

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

  • Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions

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

    Hamidreza Marvi;Chaohui Gong;Nick Gravish;Henry Astley

  • 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

  • Parameterized and Scripted Gaits for Modular Snake Robots

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

  • Limited communication, multi-robot team based coverage

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

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

    Glenn Wagner;Howie Choset

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

    Howie Choset;Kevin Lynch;Seth Hutchinson;George Kantor

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred A. Rizzi
Alfred A. Rizzi Boston Dynamics (United States)
Daniel I. Goldman
Daniel I. Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
William C. Messner
William C. Messner Tufts University
Nabil Simaan
Nabil Simaan Vanderbilt University
Matthew T. Mason
Matthew T. Mason Carnegie Mellon University
Ioannis Rekleitis
Ioannis Rekleitis University of South Carolina
Sven Koenig
Sven Koenig University of Southern California
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Gregory S. Chirikjian University of Delaware
Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider Carnegie Mellon University

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