OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Reviews in Control is 23. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A comprehensive review of models and nonlinear control strategies for blood glucose regulation in artificial pancreas	128
Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review	125
The data-driven approach to classical control theory	123
Linear quantum systems: A tutorial	93
A real-time interactive decision-making and control framework for complex cyber-physical-human systems	90
Smith predictor based control of multi time-delay processes	85
Control-theoretic modeling of multi-species water quality dynamics in drinking water networks: Survey, methods, and test cases	84
Adaptive conductance control	78
A review on VSC-HVDC control schemes	76
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	75
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	75
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	71
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	66
Probabilistic prediction methods for nonlinear systems with application to stochastic model predictive control	56
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems	54
A survey on tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles: Experiments-based approach	52
Quantum covariance and filtering	51
State estimation of the Stefan PDE: A tutorial on design and applications to polar ice and batteries	49
A review of physics-based learning for system health management	49
Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges	48
Editorial Board	43
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	42
Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	39
Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models	39
Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	39

Reinforcement Learning for feedback-enabled cyber resilience	38
Adaptive control and reinforcement learning for vehicle suspension control: A review	38
Closed-form and robust expressions for data-driven LQ control	36
A brief survey on encrypted control: From the first to the second generation and beyond	34
Predictive and robust control strategies applied to ground antenna systems	33
Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective	32
Special section on estimation and control of quantum systems	31
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum–classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications	31
Lateral control for autonomous vehicles: A comparative evaluation	30
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	29
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	29
Editorial Board	29
Value-gradient iteration with quadratic approximate value functions	28
Virtual control strategy and conditioning technique for tracking and learning controls under input restrictions	26
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	25
Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics	25
A unified framework for exponential stability analysis of irrational transfer functions in the parametric space	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
Nonparametric adaptive control in native spaces: Finite-dimensional implementations, Part II	23
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	23
Control education for societal-scale challenges: A community roadmap	23