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Advanced Sensor and Control Systems

Advanced Sensor and Control Systems is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 68k research works in it since 1951. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the design and application of intelligent monitoring systems, including topics such as neural network algorithms, wireless sensor networks, temperature monitoring, fuzzy control, PID controllers, real-time monitoring, and data fusion. The research covers a wide range of applications including geotechnical parameters prediction, heating ventilating and air-conditioning systems, wetland landscape classification, urban building energy consumption prediction, weather monitoring, industrial temperature monitoring, fault prediction in power plants, and more.

  • Neural Network
  • Monitoring System
  • Temperature
  • Wireless Sensor Network
  • Internet of Things
  • Fuzzy Control
  • PID Controller
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Fusion
Research works
68k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
6.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+103%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Sensor and Control Systems

Which countries lead Advanced Sensor and Control Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.6k and 234 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.6k works
  2. 2 India 234 works
  3. 3 United States 124 works
  4. 4 ?? 111 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 108 works
  6. 6 Japan 75 works
  7. 7 South Korea 58 works
  8. 8 Russia 44 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 37 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 36 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: 84.7%India: 4.3%United States: 2.3%??: 2.0%6 others listed: 6.6%85%largest
China4,589 · 84.7%India234 · 4.3%United States124 · 2.3%??111 · 2.0%6 others listed359 · 6.6%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Sensor and Control Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, China Southern Power Grid (China) publishes the most Advanced Sensor and Control Systems research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 92 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 87 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 84 works
  4. 4 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 63 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Electric (China)China 61 works
  6. 6 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 50 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 44 works
  8. 8 Beihang UniversityChina 40 works
  9. 9 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 39 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Sensor and Control Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Sensor and Control Systems include Wei Huang, Xiaogang Wang and Li Fei-Fei.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Sensor and Control Systems?

The most cited paper in Advanced Sensor and Control Systems is "Dynamic programming algorithm optimization for spoken word recognition" (Hiroaki Sakoe, Seibi Chiba, 1978), with 6,722 citations. Next come "Parameter selection in particle swarm optimization" (3,541) and "An optimizing BP neural network algorithm based on genetic algorithm" (809).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dynamic programming algorithm optimization for spoken word recognition Hiroaki Sakoe, Seibi Chiba · IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Feb 1978 6,722
2 Parameter selection in particle swarm optimization Yuhui Shi, Russell C. Eberhart · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1998 3,541
3 An optimizing BP neural network algorithm based on genetic algorithm Shifei Ding, Chunyang Su, Junzhao Yu · Artificial Intelligence Review 17 Feb 2011 809
4 Brief Introduction of Back Propagation (BP) Neural Network Algorithm and Its Improvement Jing Li, Jihang Cheng, Jingyuan Shi et al. · Advances in intelligent and soft computing Book chapter 2012 699
5 Microprocessor-Controlled DC Motor for Load-Insensitive Position Servo System Kiyoshi Ohishi, Masato Nakao, Kouhei Ohnishi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Feb 1987 617
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Sensor and Control Systems research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Sensor and Control Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing and Jilin City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 717 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 309 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 245 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 237 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 235 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 205 works
  7. 7 HarbinChina 132 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 130 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 126 works
  10. 10 JinanChina 116 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Beijing26.6 works12×
  2. Jilin CityCN · 21.1 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Sensor and Control Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Yanshan University, Northeastern University and Zhejiang University 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.

0%20%40%mean 18.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yanshan UniversityZhejiang UniversityNortheastern Univers…Beihang University
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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
1Yanshan UniversityChina 77.334.1%11.3×20 +109.7%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 77.021.3%7.1×31 +123.5%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 74.624.6%2.4×32 +64.8%
4Beihang UniversityChina 73.815.4%7.4×40 +60.4%
5China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 72.825.5%7.4×28 +57.5%
6Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 71.08.9%16.0×63 +56.9%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 69.716.3%4.0×35 +141.3%
8Hohai UniversityChina 69.721.4%8.6×25 +74.7%
9North China Electric Power UniversityChina 69.47.7%15.2×50 +41.7%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 68.811.3%5.5×44 +204.2%

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 Sensor and Control Systems, country by country

Is Advanced Sensor and Control Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 103% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Sensor and Control Systems.

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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 Sensor and Control Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Sensor and Control 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.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Sensor and Control Systems9.9% in 2025200020102020

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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