Aerospace Engineering

Coverstone, Walenczewski receive Pierce Awards

AE Prof. Victoria H. Coverstone and senior Sylvee Walenczewski have won the 2008 Stanley H. Pierce faculty and undergraduate awards, respectively, from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Flying the Crowded Skies
AE Grad Student Wins NASA Scholarship to Improve Air Transportation

Our current air transportation system has reached its capacity, says Heather Arneson, a graduate student working under Cedric Langbort, a professor of aerospace engineering and the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory.

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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.