OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Reviews in Control is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A real-time interactive decision-making and control framework for complex cyber-physical-human systems	118
The data-driven approach to classical control theory	114
Linear quantum systems: A tutorial	104
A comprehensive review of models and nonlinear control strategies for blood glucose regulation in artificial pancreas	85
Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review	80
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	76
Adaptive conductance control	75
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	73
A review on VSC-HVDC control schemes	67
Control-theoretic modeling of multi-species water quality dynamics in drinking water networks: Survey, methods, and test cases	66
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	62
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	62
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems	60
Probabilistic prediction methods for nonlinear systems with application to stochastic model predictive control	49
A survey on tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles: Experiments-based approach	48
A review of physics-based learning for system health management	46
Quantum covariance and filtering	46
State estimation of the Stefan PDE: A tutorial on design and applications to polar ice and batteries	45
Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges	44
Editorial Board	41
Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	40
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	40
Adaptive control and reinforcement learning for vehicle suspension control: A review	37
Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models	36
Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	33

Reinforcement Learning for feedback-enabled cyber resilience	33
Closed-form and robust expressions for data-driven LQ control	32
Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective	31
A brief survey on encrypted control: From the first to the second generation and beyond	30
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum–classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications	30
Lateral control for autonomous vehicles: A comparative evaluation	28
Special section on estimation and control of quantum systems	27
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	26
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	26
Editorial Board	26
Virtual control strategy and conditioning technique for tracking and learning controls under input restrictions	25
Value-gradient iteration with quadratic approximate value functions	25
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	24
A unified framework for exponential stability analysis of irrational transfer functions in the parametric space	24
Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics	24
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	22
Shaping the future of advanced automation and control systems for society strategic directions and multidisciplinary collaborations of IFAC's social systems coordinating committee	22
Review of floating object manipulation by autonomous multi-vessel systems	21
Nonparametric adaptive control in native spaces: Finite-dimensional implementations, Part II	21
Fractional cyber-neural systems — A brief survey	21
Control education for societal-scale challenges: A community roadmap	21
Learning against uncertainty in control engineering	20
Role of digital technologies to enhance the human integration in industrial cyber–physical systems	19
A frequency domain approach to Kalman filtering on Hilbert spaces: Application to Sturm–Liouville systems with pointwise measurement	19
Neural network-based flight control systems: Present and future	18
Parameter estimation and system identification for continuously-observed quantum systems	18
Active queue management for alleviating Internet congestion via a nonlinear differential equation with a variable delay	18
Lyapunov stability tests for integral delay systems	16
A survey on convex optimization for guidance and control of vehicular systems	16
A harmonious synergy between robotic performance and well-being in human-robot collaboration: A vision and key recommendations	16
Leak detection and localization in water distribution networks: Review and perspective	15
Fault tolerant control of an octorotor UAV using sliding mode for applications in challenging environments	15
Recursive identification methods for general stochastic systems with colored noises by using the hierarchical identification principle and the filtering identification idea	15
Reconfiguration blocks and fault hiding: Design, applications, and challenges	15
Synchronization and pinning control of stochastic coevolving networks	14
Optimization algorithms as robust feedback controllers	14
Modelling and control of manipulators for inspection and maintenance in challenging environments: A literature review	14
Moment quantization of inhomogeneous spin ensembles	12
A Critical Review on Control Strategies for Structural Vibration Control	12
Control practice for robotic applications in challenging environments	12
Mastering chaos: A review	11
Survey of distributed algorithms for resource allocation over multi-agent systems	11
Broad-deep network-based fuzzy emotional inference model with personal information for intention understanding in human–robot interaction	10
Generative Adversarial Networks for anomaly detection on decentralised data	10
Explainable heat demand forecasting for the novel control strategies of district heating systems	10
From sensing to control of lower limb exoskeleton: a systematic review	9
Online control of discrete-event systems: A survey	9
From road congestion to vehicle-control enabled artificial traffic fluids	9
Latent variable models in the era of industrial big data: Extension and beyond	9
Design, modeling, and experimental analysis of the Crawler Unit for inspection in constrained space	9

Composite adaptation and learning for robot control: A survey	9
Editorial Board	9
A comprehensive review of static and dynamic facility layout problems	8
Handbook of linear data-driven predictive control: Theory, implementation and design	8
A tutorial introduction to quantum stochastic master equations based on the qubit/photon system	8
Control for smart systems: Applications, trends, and future challenges	8
Control for cognitive systems	7
Developing control-theoretic objectives for large-scale brain dynamics and cognitive enhancement	7
PID control of quadrotor UAVs: A survey	7
Voltage regulation in distribution grids: A survey	7