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Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems

Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 3.7k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the concepts, principles, and applications of inertially stabilized platform technology. It covers topics such as control systems for stabilization, gimbal systems, line-of-sight stabilization, disturbance rejection, MEMS sensors, robust control, navigation aids, UAV operation, and signal processing in the context of airborne imaging and remote sensing systems.

  • Inertial Stabilization
  • Control Systems
  • Gimbal System
  • Line-of-Sight Stabilization
  • Disturbance Rejection
  • MEMS Sensors
  • Robust Control
  • Navigation Aids
  • UAV Operation
  • Signal Processing
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
370
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems

Which countries lead Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (246 and 225 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 246 works
  2. 2 Russia 225 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 196 works
  4. 4 United States 45 works
  5. 5 India 24 works
  6. 6 Poland 22 works
  7. 7 Germany 11 works
  8. 8 Belarus 10 works
  9. 9 ?? 10 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 10 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 30.8%Russia: 28.2%Ukraine: 24.5%United States: 5.6%6 others listed: 10.9%31%largest
China246 · 30.8%Russia225 · 28.2%Ukraine196 · 24.5%United States45 · 5.6%6 others listed87 · 10.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute" publishes the most Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 58 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 27 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 23 works
  4. 4 Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and InstrumentationRussia 15 works
  5. 5 National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation InstituteUkraine 15 works
  6. 6 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 13 works
  7. 7 Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force UniversityUkraine 12 works
  8. 8 Beihang UniversityChina 12 works
  9. 9 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 12 works
  10. 10 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems include Yi-Xiang Wang.

  1. 1 Yi-Xiang Wang China 71k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems?

The most cited paper in Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems is "Synthetic aperture radar — systems and signal processing" (Timo Lensu, 1992), with 1,414 citations. Next come "Model predictive control of three-axis gimbal system mounted on UAV for real-time target tracking under external disturbances" (554) and "Inertially stabilized platform technology Concepts and principles" (485).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Synthetic aperture radar — systems and signal processing Timo Lensu · Signal Processing Oct 1992 1,414
2 Model predictive control of three-axis gimbal system mounted on UAV for real-time target tracking under external disturbances Aytaç Altan, Rıfat Hacıoğlu · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing Open access 5 Jan 2020 554
3 Inertially stabilized platform technology Concepts and principles James M. Hilkert · IEEE Control Systems 14 Jan 2008 485
4 Automatic Flight Control Systems D. McLean · Measurement and Control Open access Jul 2003 457
5 Quaternion-Based Hybrid Control for Robust Global Attitude Tracking Christopher G. Mayhew, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Andrew R. Teel · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 28 Jan 2011 436
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China) and Kharkiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Saint Petersburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 97 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 94 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 62 works
  4. 4 KharkivUkraine 53 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 42 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 21 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 18 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 17 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 15 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KharkivUA · 53.1 works59×
  2. KyivUA · 96.7 works38×
  3. Saint PetersburgRU · 42.1 works18×
  4. MoscowRU · 94.4 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Beihang University, State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute" and National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Beihang UniversityChina 63.016.4%13.5×12 +38.8%
2State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 52.18.4%484.8×58 -21.9%
3National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation InstituteUkraine 31.34.3%344.2×15 +2.1%
4National University of Defense TechnologyChina 24.94.4%19.1×12 +100.6%
5National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 16.53.9%64.8×12 -11.6%
6Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force UniversityUkraine 15.33.0%1085.7×12 -49.9%
7Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 14.34.6%104.4×13 -35.2%
8Moscow State Technical University of Civil AviationRussia 12.41.5%1101.6×11 +76.4%
9Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and InstrumentationRussia 12.20.1%539.4×15 -20.3%
10Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 8.75.1%68.1×10 -55.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems, country by country

Is Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Control and Stabilization in Aerospace Systems over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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