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D-Index
41
Citations
7433
World Ranking
6912
National Ranking
1885

Timothy Bretl publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Timothy Bretl sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 161 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Timothy Bretl D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Timothy Bretl is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and computer science, with a focus on robotics, control systems, and artificial intelligence.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

More specialized subfields of study comprise:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Inertial Sensor and Navigation
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Timothy Bretl are:

  • "PoseRBPF: A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6-D Object Pose Tracking," published in 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation," published in 2022 in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Motion Planning for Dual-Arm Manipulation of Elastic Rods," published in 2020 in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Extrinsic Calibration of Multiple Inertial Sensors From Arbitrary Trajectories," published in 2022 in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Hypergraph-Based Multi-robot Task and Motion Planning," published in 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bretl include:

  • David Hanley
  • Junyi Geng
  • Andy Borum
  • Jongwon Lee
  • Holly Dinkel

Timothy Bretl's publications appear in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Journal of Aircraft
  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Best Publications

  • Materials and Optimized Designs for Human‐Machine Interfaces Via Epidermal Electronics

    Jae Woong Jeong;Woon Hong Yeo;Aadeel Akhtar;James J S Norton

  • Soft, curved electrode systems capable of integration on the auricle as a persistent brain–computer interface

    James J. S. Norton;Dong Sup Lee;Jung Woo Lee;Woosik Lee

  • Epidermal mechano-acoustic sensing electronics for cardiovascular diagnostics and human-machine interfaces

    Yuhao Liu;James J.S. Norton;Raza Qazi;Zhanan Zou

  • Large-area MRI-compatible epidermal electronic interfaces for prosthetic control and cognitive monitoring.

    Limei Tian;Benjamin Zimmerman;Aadeel Akhtar;Ki Jun Yu

  • An Epidermal Stimulation and Sensing Platform for Sensorimotor Prosthetic Control, Management of Lower Back Exertion, and Electrical Muscle Activation

    Baoxing Xu;Baoxing Xu;Aadeel Akhtar;Yuhao Liu;Hang Chen;Hang Chen

  • Motion Planning for Legged Robots on Varied Terrain

    Kris K. Hauser;Timothy Bretl;Jean-Claude Latombe;Kensuke Harada

  • Motion Planning of Multi-Limbed Robots Subject to Equilibrium Constraints: The Free-Climbing Robot Problem

    Timothy Bretl

  • Testing Static Equilibrium for Legged Robots

    T. Bretl;S. Lall

  • Self-supervised 6D Object Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulation

    Xinke Deng;Yu Xiang;Arsalan Mousavian;Clemens Eppner

  • PoseRBPF: A Rao–Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6-D Object Pose Tracking

    Xinke Deng;Arsalan Mousavian;Yu Xiang;Fei Xia

  • Using Motion Primitives in Probabilistic Sample-Based Planning for Humanoid Robots

    Kris Hauser;Timothy Wolfe Bretl;Kensuke Harada;Jean Claude Latombe

  • Quasi-static manipulation of a Kirchhoff elastic rod based on a geometric analysis of equilibrium configurations

    Timothy Bretl;Zoe Mccarthy

  • Non-gaited humanoid locomotion planning

    K. Hauser;T. Bretl;J.-C. Latombe

  • Tact: Design and performance of an open-source, affordable, myoelectric prosthetic hand

    Patrick Slade;Aadeel Akhtar;Mary Nguyen;Timothy Bretl

  • Free-Climbing with a Multi-Use Robot

    Timothy Bretl;Stephen M. Rock;Jean-Claude Latombe;Brett Kennedy

  • Inverse optimal control for deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems

    Miles Johnson;Navid Aghasadeghi;Timothy Bretl

  • Motion Planning for a Six-Legged Lunar Robot

    Kris K. Hauser;Timothy Bretl;Jean-Claude Latombe;Brian Wilcox

  • Approximate Steering of a Unicycle Under Bounded Model Perturbation Using Ensemble Control

    A. Becker;T. Bretl

  • Multi-step motion planning for free-climbing robots

    Timothy Wolfe Bretl;Sanjay Lall;Jean Claude Latombe;Stephen Rock

  • Controlling sensation intensity for electrotactile stimulation in human-machine interfaces

    Aadeel Akhtar;Joseph Sombeck;Brandon Boyce;Timothy Bretl

  • PoseRBPF: A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6D Object Pose Tracking

    Xinke Deng;Arsalan Mousavian;Yu Xiang;Fei Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers Northwestern University
Jean-Claude Latombe
Jean-Claude Latombe Stanford University
Yonggang Huang
Yonggang Huang Northwestern University
Stephen M. Rock
Stephen M. Rock Stanford University
Woon-Hong Yeo
Woon-Hong Yeo Georgia Institute of Technology
Kris Hauser
Kris Hauser Duke University
Levi J. Hargrove
Levi J. Hargrove Northwestern University
Jung Woo Lee
Jung Woo Lee Pusan National University
Craig Zilles
Craig Zilles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pascal Bellon
Pascal Bellon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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