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
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	75
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	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
Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	39
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

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
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	29
Editorial Board	29
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	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
Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics	25
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	25
Shaping the future of advanced automation and control systems for society strategic directions and multidisciplinary collaborations of IFAC's social systems coordinating committee	24
A unified framework for exponential stability analysis of irrational transfer functions in the parametric space	24
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	23
Control education for societal-scale challenges: A community roadmap	23
Nonparametric adaptive control in native spaces: Finite-dimensional implementations, Part II	23