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

AE Alumni Board Funds First Endowed AE Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering at Illinois is pleased to announce that full funding has now been achieved for the department's first endowed graduate fellowship.

Prof. Scott White highlighted in 'Bloomberg Businessweek'

AE Prof. Scott R. White and his research have been featured on magazine's website.

AE Students Awarded Rockwell Collins Scholarships

Three AE students have received scholarships of $5,000 each, thanks to the philanthropy of Rockwell Collins, Inc.

AE Students Compete in NASA Lunabotics Competition

AE students are members of a University of Illinois team competing in the Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, hosted by NASA.

Tanaka Wins CDC Best Student Paper Award

AE graduate student Takashi Tanaka won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award from the Conference on Decision and Control of IEEE.

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Timothy W. Bretl

Assistant Professor

tbretl@illinois.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.