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Control Systems in Engineering

Control Systems in Engineering is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the vibration suppression and control of two-mass drive systems, particularly addressing issues such as torsional vibration, elastic coupling, and mechanical resonance. Various control methods including adaptive, neuro-fuzzy, PID, and model-based predictive control are explored for improving the performance of industrial drives with mechanical elasticity.

  • Vibration Suppression
  • Drive Systems
  • Two-Mass System
  • Control
  • Adaptive
  • Torsional Vibration
  • Elastic Coupling
  • Speed Control
  • Mechanical Resonance
  • Neuro-Fuzzy
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+42%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Control Systems in Engineering

Which countries lead Control Systems in Engineering research?

By volume, China and Germany publish the most (1.1k and 107 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 Germany 107 works
  3. 3 Japan 87 works
  4. 4 India 81 works
  5. 5 United States 79 works
  6. 6 Russia 62 works
  7. 7 Poland 45 works
  8. 8 Vietnam 42 works
  9. 9 South Korea 41 works
  10. 10 Italy 28 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: 64.9%Germany: 6.6%Japan: 5.3%India: 4.9%6 others listed: 18.2%65%largest
China1,058 · 64.9%Germany107 · 6.6%Japan87 · 5.3%India81 · 4.9%6 others listed297 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Control Systems in Engineering research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Control Systems in Engineering research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 43 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 30 works
  3. 3 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 25 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 25 works
  5. 5 Beihang UniversityChina 22 works
  6. 6 Southeast UniversityChina 21 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 20 works
  8. 8 Yanshan UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 17 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Control Systems in Engineering?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Control Systems in Engineering include Frede Blaabjerg, Frank L. Lewis and Peng Shi.

  1. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  2. 2 Frank L. Lewis United States 90k citations
  3. 3 Peng Shi Australia 89k 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 Control Systems in Engineering?

The most cited paper in Control Systems in Engineering is "Sliding-Mode Control for Systems With Mismatched Uncertainties via a Disturbance Observer" (Jun Tao Yang, Shihua Li, Xinghuo Yu, 2012), with 1,338 citations. Next come "Sliding Mode Control in Electromechanical Systems" (1,245) and "Modern control engineering" (1,047).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sliding-Mode Control for Systems With Mismatched Uncertainties via a Disturbance Observer Jun Tao Yang, Shihua Li, Xinghuo Yu · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access 11 Jan 2012 1,338
2 Sliding Mode Control in Electromechanical Systems Torsten Knohl · Control Engineering Practice Dec 2000 1,245
3 Modern control engineering Stanley R. Liberty · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Jun 1972 1,047
4 Active Control of Vibration Chris R. Fuller, S.J. Elliott, Philip A. Nelson et al. · Physics Today May 1997 1,023
5 Sliding mode control of a discrete system Katsuhisa Furuta · Systems & Control Letters Feb 1990 860
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Control Systems in Engineering research done?

The largest centres of Control Systems in Engineering research in 2022-now 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 Stuttgart and Harbin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 154 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 87 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 62 works
  4. 4 HarbinChina 57 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 53 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 48 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 40 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 37 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 33 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StuttgartDE · 20.1 works12×
  2. HarbinCN · 57.0 works7.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Control Systems in Engineering?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Southeast University and Nanjing University of Science and 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.

0%20%40%mean 19.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityNanjing University o…Harbin Institute of …Southeast 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
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 77.821.6%15.0×43 +63.3%
2Southeast UniversityChina 73.017.9%8.1×21 +160.4%
3Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 72.923.3%17.3×25 +100.2%
4Jiangsu UniversityChina 69.332.3%9.2×13 +112.5%
5Beihang UniversityChina 60.915.6%11.3×22 +46.1%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 59.112.3%11.8×25 +94.0%
7Qingdao UniversityChina 58.124.9%7.0×8 +20.0%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 56.619.3%3.7×17 +68.1%
9AGH University of KrakowPoland 49.514.0%14.7×10 +40.5%
10Yanshan UniversityChina 49.412.2%31.4×19 +80.8%

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 Control Systems in Engineering, country by country

Is Control Systems in Engineering research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Control Systems in Engineering.

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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 Control Systems in Engineering as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Control Systems in Engineering0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Control Systems in Engineering 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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