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Altaeros (United States)

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Research works
11
▼ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
180
16.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
9%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Altaeros (United States)

Not ranked overall: Altaeros (United States) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Altaeros (United States) work in?

In all years, 99% of research at Altaeros (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (92%), Environmental Science (5%), Computer Science (1%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 99.0% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 92.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 8 fractional works · 70.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAltaeros (UnitedStates)11fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences99%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 2 domains and 4 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1092.5%
    2. Environmental Science15.4%
    3. Computer Science01.0%
    1. Psychology01.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Altaeros (United States)?

The most cited paper from Altaeros (United States) is "Model-Based Plant Design and Hierarchical Control of a Prototype Lighter-Than-Air Wind Energy System, With Experimental Flight Test Results" (Chris Vermillion, Trey Grunnagle, Ronny Salim Lim et al., 2013), with 79 citations. Next come "Iterative Learning-Based Path Optimization for Repetitive Path Planning, With Application to 3-D Crosswind Flight of Airborne Wind Energy Systems" (62) and "Modeling and control design for a prototype lighter-than-air wind energy system" (37).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Model-Based Plant Design and Hierarchical Control of a Prototype Lighter-Than-Air Wind Energy System, With Experimental Flight Test Results Chris Vermillion, Trey Grunnagle, Ronny Salim Lim et al. · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 19 Jun 2013 79
2 Iterative Learning-Based Path Optimization for Repetitive Path Planning, With Application to 3-D Crosswind Flight of Airborne Wind Energy Systems Mitchell Cobb, Kira L. Barton, Hosam K. Fathy et al. · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 27 May 2019 62
3 Modeling and control design for a prototype lighter-than-air wind energy system Christopher Vermillion, Trey Grunnagle, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky Conference paper Jun 2012 37
4 Lighter-Than-Air Wind Energy Systems Chris Vermillion, Ben Glass, Adam Rein · Green energy and technology Book chapter 2013 29
5 Stable hierarchical model predictive control using an inner loop reference model and λ -contractive terminal constraint sets Chris Vermillion, Amor A. Menezes, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky · Automatica Nov 2013 22
All 23 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Altaeros (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems, Inertial Sensor and Navigation, Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems and Structural Analysis and Optimization.

Aerospace Engineering an…0Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems: 0 fractional worksInertial Sensor and Navi…0Inertial Sensor and Navigation: 0 fractional worksAdaptive Control of Nonl…0Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems: 0 fractional worksStructural Analysis and …0Structural Analysis and Optimization: 0 fractional worksSpacecraft Dynamics and …0Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: 0 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringCivil and Structural Engineering

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Inertial Sensor and Navigation Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Structural Analysis and Optimization Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Aerospace Engineering 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available9.4%not open90.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.0%domestic only93.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Altaeros (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Altaeros (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000031% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Altaeros (United States)0.0000043% in 20252020

Fractional works of Altaeros (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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