OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Reviews in Control is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The data-driven approach to classical control theory	133
Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review	133
Linear quantum systems: A tutorial	125
A real-time interactive decision-making and control framework for complex cyber-physical-human systems	104
A comprehensive review of models and nonlinear control strategies for blood glucose regulation in artificial pancreas	93
Smith predictor based control of multi time-delay processes	90
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	87
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	83
Adaptive conductance control	83
Control-theoretic modeling of multi-species water quality dynamics in drinking water networks: Survey, methods, and test cases	78
A review on VSC-HVDC control schemes	75
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	73
A survey on tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles: Experiments-based approach	70
Probabilistic prediction methods for nonlinear systems with application to stochastic model predictive control	61
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	58
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems	57
Quantum covariance and filtering	54
State estimation of the Stefan PDE: A tutorial on design and applications to polar ice and batteries	52
A review of physics-based learning for system health management	52
Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges	48
Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	45
Editorial Board	45
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	43
Adaptive control and reinforcement learning for vehicle suspension control: A review	42
Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models	42

Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	41
Reinforcement Learning for feedback-enabled cyber resilience	40
Closed-form and robust expressions for data-driven LQ control	37
Special section on estimation and control of quantum systems	36
Predictive and robust control strategies applied to ground antenna systems	35
A brief survey on encrypted control: From the first to the second generation and beyond	35
Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective	35
Editorial Board	32
Lateral control for autonomous vehicles: A comparative evaluation	32
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum–classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications	32
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	31
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	30
Virtual control strategy and conditioning technique for tracking and learning controls under input restrictions	28
Value-gradient iteration with quadratic approximate value functions	28
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	27
Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics	25
Parametrizations of all stable closed-loop responses: From theory to neural network control design	25
A unified framework for exponential stability analysis of irrational transfer functions in the parametric space	25
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	24
Review of floating object manipulation by autonomous multi-vessel systems	24
Nonparametric adaptive control in native spaces: Finite-dimensional implementations, Part II	24
Control education for societal-scale challenges: A community roadmap	24
Shaping the future of advanced automation and control systems for society strategic directions and multidisciplinary collaborations of IFAC's social systems coordinating committee	24
Fractional cyber-neural systems — A brief survey	23
Learning against uncertainty in control engineering	22
A frequency domain approach to Kalman filtering on Hilbert spaces: Application to Sturm–Liouville systems with pointwise measurement	21
Active queue management for alleviating Internet congestion via a nonlinear differential equation with a variable delay	21
Role of digital technologies to enhance the human integration in industrial cyber–physical systems	21
Neural network-based flight control systems: Present and future	20
A harmonious synergy between robotic performance and well-being in human-robot collaboration: A vision and key recommendations	19
Parameter estimation and system identification for continuously-observed quantum systems	18
A survey on convex optimization for guidance and control of vehicular systems	18
Lyapunov stability tests for integral delay systems	18
Synchronization and pinning control of stochastic coevolving networks	17
Reconfiguration blocks and fault hiding: Design, applications, and challenges	17
Leak detection and localization in water distribution networks: Review and perspective	16
Optimization algorithms as robust feedback controllers	16
Modelling and control of manipulators for inspection and maintenance in challenging environments: A literature review	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	14
Control practice for robotic applications in challenging environments	14
A Critical Review on Control Strategies for Structural Vibration Control	14
Moment quantization of inhomogeneous spin ensembles	14
Generative Adversarial Networks for anomaly detection on decentralised data	13
Mastering chaos: A review	13
Explainable heat demand forecasting for the novel control strategies of district heating systems	13
Survey of distributed algorithms for resource allocation over multi-agent systems	13
Broad-deep network-based fuzzy emotional inference model with personal information for intention understanding in human–robot interaction	12
Editorial Board	12
From road congestion to vehicle-control enabled artificial traffic fluids	11

Design, modeling, and experimental analysis of the Crawler Unit for inspection in constrained space	11
From sensing to control of lower limb exoskeleton: a systematic review	11
Latent variable models in the era of industrial big data: Extension and beyond	10
Online control of discrete-event systems: A survey	10
A comprehensive review of static and dynamic facility layout problems	10
Composite adaptation and learning for robot control: A survey	10
Handbook of linear data-driven predictive control: Theory, implementation and design	9
Voltage regulation in distribution grids: A survey	9
Control for smart systems: Applications, trends, and future challenges	9
A tutorial introduction to quantum stochastic master equations based on the qubit/photon system	9
Cooperative control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems under spatiotemporal constraints	8
Bio-inspired control strategies in wearable robotics: A comprehensive review of CPGs and DMPs	8
PID control of quadrotor UAVs: A survey	8
Developing control-theoretic objectives for large-scale brain dynamics and cognitive enhancement	8
Control for cognitive systems	8