2026 Timothy Bretl: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	41	6909	6669	1884	1747	161	7433

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Engineering and Technology

6909

6669

1884

1747

161

7433

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

7433

World Ranking

6909

National Ranking

1884

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

866
Citations
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

401
Citations
Epidermal mechano-acoustic sensing electronics for cardiovascular diagnostics and human-machine interfaces

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

396
Citations
Large-area MRI-compatible epidermal electronic interfaces for prosthetic control and cognitive monitoring.

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

373
Citations
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

315
Citations
Motion Planning for Legged Robots on Varied Terrain

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

243
Citations
Motion Planning of Multi-Limbed Robots Subject to Equilibrium Constraints: The Free-Climbing Robot Problem

Timothy Bretl

229
Citations
Testing Static Equilibrium for Legged Robots

T. Bretl;S. Lall

213
Citations
Self-supervised 6D Object Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulation

Xinke Deng;Yu Xiang;Arsalan Mousavian;Clemens Eppner

205
Citations
PoseRBPF: A Rao–Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6-D Object Pose Tracking

Xinke Deng;Arsalan Mousavian;Yu Xiang;Fei Xia

199
Citations
Using Motion Primitives in Probabilistic Sample-Based Planning for Humanoid Robots

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

192
Citations
Quasi-static manipulation of a Kirchhoff elastic rod based on a geometric analysis of equilibrium configurations

Timothy Bretl;Zoe Mccarthy

187
Citations
Non-gaited humanoid locomotion planning

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

162
Citations
Tact: Design and performance of an open-source, affordable, myoelectric prosthetic hand

Patrick Slade;Aadeel Akhtar;Mary Nguyen;Timothy Bretl

110
Citations
Free-Climbing with a Multi-Use Robot

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

100
Citations
Inverse optimal control for deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems

Miles Johnson;Navid Aghasadeghi;Timothy Bretl

100
Citations
Motion Planning for a Six-Legged Lunar Robot

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

95
Citations
Approximate Steering of a Unicycle Under Bounded Model Perturbation Using Ensemble Control

A. Becker;T. Bretl

91
Citations
Multi-step motion planning for free-climbing robots

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

90
Citations
Controlling sensation intensity for electrotactile stimulation in human-machine interfaces

Aadeel Akhtar;Joseph Sombeck;Brandon Boyce;Timothy Bretl

90
Citations
PoseRBPF: A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6D Object Pose Tracking

Xinke Deng;Arsalan Mousavian;Yu Xiang;Fei Xia

73
Citations