Faculty - Aerospace Engineering - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lambros Named ASME Fellow

Professor John Lambros makes the third AE faculty member this year to have achieved the status of Fellow within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Sixty Years and Going Strong

Emeritus Prof. Harry H. Hilton reached a remarkable milestone in September 2009 — his 60th continuous year at the University of Illinois.

The university, college, and Department of Aerospace Engineering welcomed Colonel Lee J. Archambault, BS 82, MS 84 AE, a distinguished United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut, back to campus during the Foundation weekend Oct. 2-4.

AE undergrad wins National Student Role Model Award

AE undergraduate Joseph Gonzalez has been selected as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ National Student Role Model of the Year

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Timothy W. Bretl

Assistant Professor

tbretl@uiuc.edu

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Office address	Mailing Address	Research Group
321A Talbot Lab 217-244-3126	306 Talbot Lab 104 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Aerospace information technology, systems, and control, with a focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles. See also: Professor Bretl's home page

Education:

Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2005.
M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2000.
B.S., Engineering, Swarthmore College, 1999.
B.A., Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 1999.

Honors and Awards:

Herbert Kunzel Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2002-2004
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2002
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (honorary), 1999-2002
McCabe Engineering Award, 1999
Heinrich W. Brinkmann Mathematics Prize, 1999

Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2006–present
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Computer Science, Stanford University, June 2005–May 2006

Selected Publications:

K. Hauser, T. Bretl, K. Harada, and J.C. Latombe. “Using Motion Primitives in Probabilistic Sample-Based Planning for Humanoid Robots” (2006). Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), New York, NY.
K. Hauser, T. Bretl, J.C. Latombe, and B. Wilcox. “Motion Planning for a Six-Legged Lunar Robot” (2006). Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), New York, NY.
T. Bretl and S. Lall. "A Fast and Adaptive Test of Static Equilibrium for Legged Robots" (2006). IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida.
T. Bretl. "Motion Planning of Multi-Limbed Robots Subject to Equilibrium Constraints: The Free-Climbing Robot Problem" (2006). International Journal of Robotics Research, 25(4): 317-342.

Aerospace Engineering