OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Reviews in Control is 24. 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
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
Predictive and robust control strategies applied to ground antenna systems	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