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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Arnold Pretorius

Arnold Pretorius publishes mostly in Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Aerospace and Aviation Technology and Inertial Sensor and Navigation.

ORCID 0000-0002-1940-588X OpenAlex
World rank
#5,466,933
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#23,478
of 29,826
Works
16
Citations
69
Citations per work
4.3
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 87% in Control and Systems Engineering
Arnold Pretorius

What does Arnold Pretorius research?

Arnold Pretorius's work is mostly in Engineering (60%), Computer Science (8%).

Physical Sciences: 11 works · 68.9% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 60.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 works · 27.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 4 works · 22.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 6.3% of their workMedia Technology: 1 works · 4.2% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 8.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 4.2% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 31.1% of their workTHEIR WORKArnold Pretorius16works
Physical Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1060.5%
    2. Computer Science18.4%
  2. Everything else531.1%
  1. 1Control and Systems Engineering27% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering23% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  4. 4Media Technology4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Arnold Pretorius's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parameter Estimation, Data-Driven Control, Nonlinear Systems, Robotic Manipulators, 3D Mapping, SLAM, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Wind Estimation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Parameter Estimation52 topics
  2. Data-Driven Control42 topics
  3. Nonlinear Systems42 topics
  4. Robotic Manipulators42 topics
  5. 3D Mapping31 topic
  6. SLAM31 topic
  7. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles31 topic
  8. Wind Estimation31 topic
  9. Adaptive Control21 topic
  10. Bioinspired Robotics21 topic
  11. Hardware-in-the-Loop21 topic
  12. Inertial Navigation Systems21 topic
  13. Iterative Learning Control21 topic
  14. Nonlinear Models21 topic
  15. Real-Time Simulation21 topic
  16. Repetitive Control21 topic
  17. Sensor Fusion21 topic
  18. Sliding Mode Control21 topic
  19. Soft Robotics21 topic
  20. System Identification21 topic

Where does Arnold Pretorius work?

Arnold Pretorius's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Arnold Pretorius have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 69 citations for Arnold Pretorius, an h-index of 4, ranking #5,466,933 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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