OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Reviews in Control is 22. 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
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	62
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	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
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	40
Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	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
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	26
Editorial Board	26
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	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
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
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	24
Shaping the future of advanced automation and control systems for society strategic directions and multidisciplinary collaborations of IFAC's social systems coordinating committee	22
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	22