OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Reviews in Control is 26. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A real-time interactive decision-making and control framework for complex cyber-physical-human systems	156
A comprehensive review of models and nonlinear control strategies for blood glucose regulation in artificial pancreas	147
The data-driven approach to classical control theory	140
Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review	120
Linear quantum systems: A tutorial	107
Control-theoretic modeling of multi-species water quality dynamics in drinking water networks: Survey, methods, and test cases	96
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	92
Smith predictor based control of multi time-delay processes	91
Adaptive conductance control	91
A review on VSC-HVDC control schemes	87
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	83
Human-like learning in car following: An attention-based driving strategy with memory-inspired adaptation	81
Observer-based error correction in finite memory approaches for pseudo state estimation of fractional dynamic models	76
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	67
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems	66
Probabilistic prediction methods for nonlinear systems with application to stochastic model predictive control	64
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	61
A survey on tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles: Experiments-based approach	61
Quantum covariance and filtering	54
A review of physics-based learning for system health management	54
Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges	52
Special section on fractional differentiation and its applications: Automatic control	52
State estimation of the Stefan PDE: A tutorial on design and applications to polar ice and batteries	51
Editorial Board	51
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	47

Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	46
Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	44
Adaptive control and reinforcement learning for vehicle suspension control: A review	43
Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models	43
Reinforcement Learning for feedback-enabled cyber resilience	43
Lateral control for autonomous vehicles: A comparative evaluation	42
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum–classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications	41
Predictive and robust control strategies applied to ground antenna systems	40
Time-domain system identification using fractional models from non-zero initial conditions applied to Li-ion Batteries	40
A brief survey on encrypted control: From the first to the second generation and beyond	39
Special section on estimation and control of quantum systems	38
Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective	35
Closed-form and robust expressions for data-driven LQ control	33
Editorial Board	32
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	32
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	31
Parametrizations of all stable closed-loop responses: From theory to neural network control design	31
Value-gradient iteration with quadratic approximate value functions	30
Virtual control strategy and conditioning technique for tracking and learning controls under input restrictions	30
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	29
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	27
A unified framework for exponential stability analysis of irrational transfer functions in the parametric space	27
Shaping the future of advanced automation and control systems for society strategic directions and multidisciplinary collaborations of IFAC's social systems coordinating committee	27
Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics	26