Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 17.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the control and navigation of nonholonomic mobile robots, addressing challenges such as adaptive control, trajectory tracking, nonholonomic constraints, feedback control, dynamic modeling, path planning, sliding mode control, omnidirectional robots, robust stabilization, and the use of neural networks for control.
- Adaptive Control
- Trajectory Tracking
- Nonholonomic Constraints
- Feedback Control
- Dynamic Modeling
- Path Planning
- Sliding Mode Control
- Omnidirectional Robots
- Robust Stabilization
- Neural Networks
- Research works
- 22k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 3.7k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 17.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +17% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 255 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.9k works
- 2 United States 255 works
- 3 India 240 works
- 4 Japan 200 works
- 5 Russia 154 works
- 6 South Korea 103 works
- 7 Mexico 86 works
- 8 Vietnam 83 works
- 9 Iran 73 works
- 10 Italy 71 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.
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Which institutions lead Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing Institute of Technology publishes the most Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots research, followed by Harbin Institute of Technology and Beihang University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 63 works
- 2 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 61 works
- 3 Beihang UniversityChina 49 works
- 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 42 works
- 5 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 41 works
- 6 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 29 works
- 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 28 works
- 8 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 27 works
- 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 23 works
- 10 Southeast UniversityChina 23 works
Who are the leading researchers in Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots include Wolfram Burgard, Frank L. Lewis and C. L. Philip Chen.
- 1 Wolfram Burgard Germany 6.3k citations
- 2 Frank L. Lewis United States 3.8k citations
- 3 C. L. Philip Chen Macau 3.6k citations
- 4 Roland Siegwart Switzerland 3.3k citations
- 5 Lihua Xie Singapore 3.2k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots research done?
The largest centres of Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Harbin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Harbin and Hanoi.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- HarbinCN · 105.7 works6.3×
- HanoiVN · 40.1 works5.9×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots?
Among universities, judged by research, Dalian Maritime University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Harbin Institute of Technology 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dalian Maritime UniversityChina | 71.1 | 26.3% | 17.9× | 27 | +370.0% |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina | 66.6 | 27.3% | 8.8× | 42 | +88.5% |
| 3 | Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina | 62.0 | 22.8% | 9.0× | 61 | +4.6% |
| 4 | Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina | 60.4 | 13.9% | 12.8× | 63 | +29.5% |
| 5 | Beihang UniversityChina | 59.5 | 16.4% | 10.7× | 49 | +26.8% |
| 6 | Harbin Engineering UniversityChina | 58.7 | 25.6% | 13.3× | 29 | +3.6% |
| 7 | Jiangsu UniversityChina | 58.3 | 43.5% | 5.9× | 18 | +26.6% |
| 8 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina | 57.3 | 16.1% | 11.0× | 41 | +27.0% |
| 9 | Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina | 55.4 | 26.8% | 8.5× | 9 | +180.0% |
| 10 | Liaoning University of TechnologyChina | 54.8 | 33.6% | 39.9× | 12 | +6.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 17% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots.
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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.