OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Reviews in Control is 27. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The data-driven approach to classical control theory	164
A real-time interactive decision-making and control framework for complex cyber-physical-human systems	153
Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review	144
Linear quantum systems: A tutorial	127
A comprehensive review of models and nonlinear control strategies for blood glucose regulation in artificial pancreas	110
A review on VSC-HVDC control schemes	101
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	99
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	97
Control-theoretic modeling of multi-species water quality dynamics in drinking water networks: Survey, methods, and test cases	96
Smith predictor based control of multi time-delay processes	90
Human-like learning in car following: An attention-based driving strategy with memory-inspired adaptation	87
Adaptive conductance control	81
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	76
Observer-based error correction in finite memory approaches for pseudo state estimation of fractional dynamic models	71
A survey on tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles: Experiments-based approach	68
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems	66
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	63
Probabilistic prediction methods for nonlinear systems with application to stochastic model predictive control	62
Quantum covariance and filtering	58
A review of physics-based learning for system health management	58
Special section on fractional differentiation and its applications: Automatic control	56
Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges	55
State estimation of the Stefan PDE: A tutorial on design and applications to polar ice and batteries	55
Editorial Board	52
Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	50

Reinforcement Learning for feedback-enabled cyber resilience	48
Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	48
Adaptive control and reinforcement learning for vehicle suspension control: A review	46
Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models	45
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	45
Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective	44
Special section on estimation and control of quantum systems	44
Closed-form and robust expressions for data-driven LQ control	44
Time-domain system identification using fractional models from non-zero initial conditions applied to Li-ion Batteries	41
Predictive and robust control strategies applied to ground antenna systems	41
A brief survey on encrypted control: From the first to the second generation and beyond	38
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum–classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications	37
Lateral control for autonomous vehicles: A comparative evaluation	34
Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems	33
Editorial Board	33
Quantum estimation, control and learning: Opportunities and challenges	32
Virtual control strategy and conditioning technique for tracking and learning controls under input restrictions	32
Parametrizations of all stable closed-loop responses: From theory to neural network control design	32
Addendum: Predictive form of the FPM model	31
Value-gradient iteration with quadratic approximate value functions	31
A unified framework for exponential stability analysis of irrational transfer functions in the parametric space	30
Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics	30
Distributed design of ultra large-scale control systems: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects	27
Learning against uncertainty in control engineering	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
Nonparametric adaptive control in native spaces: Finite-dimensional implementations, Part II	27
A frequency domain approach to Kalman filtering on Hilbert spaces: Application to Sturm–Liouville systems with pointwise measurement	27