Most cited papers in Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
What are the most cited papers in Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems?
The most cited paper in Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems is "Consensus Problems in Networks of Agents With Switching Topology and Time-Delays" (Reza Olfati‐Saber, Richard M. Murray, 2004), with 12,915 citations. Next come "Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems" (10,551) and "Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules" (8,471).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 912 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Consensus Problems in Networks of Agents With Switching Topology and Time-Delays Reza Olfati‐Saber, Richard M. Murray · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Sep 2004 | 12,915 |
| 2 | Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems Reza Olfati‐Saber, J.A. Fax, Richard M. Murray · Proceedings of the IEEE | 2007 | 10,551 |
| 3 | Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules Ali Jadbabaie, Jie Lin, A. Stephen Morse · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Jun 2003 | 8,471 |
| 4 | Consensus seeking in multiagent systems under dynamically changing interaction topologies Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | May 2005 | 6,633 |
| 5 | Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and Theory Reza Olfati‐Saber · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Mar 2006 | 5,074 |
| 6 | Information Flow and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations J.A. Fax, Richard M. Murray · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Sep 2004 | 4,619 |
| 7 | Distributed Subgradient Methods for Multi-Agent Optimization Angelia Nedić, Asuman Ozdaglar · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 2009 | 3,800 |
| 8 | Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Toward the Robust-Perception Age Cesar Cadena, Luca Carlone, Henry Carrillo et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Dec 2016 | 3,484 |
| 9 | Information consensus in multivehicle cooperative control Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, Ella M. Atkins · IEEE Control Systems | Apr 2007 | 3,198 |
| 10 | Behavior-based formation control for multirobot teams Tucker R. Balch, Ronald C. Arkin · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | 1998 | 3,120 |
| 11 | Collective motion Tamás Vicsek, Anna Zafeiris · Physics Reports | 21 Mar 2012 | 2,983 |
| 12 | Fast linear iterations for distributed averaging Lin Xiao, Stephen Boyd · Systems & Control Letters | 13 Apr 2004 | 2,789 |
| 13 | Coverage Control for Mobile Sensing Networks Jorge Eduardo Zarur Cortés, Sonia Martı́nez, T. Karatas et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Apr 2004 | 2,744 |
| 14 | Distributed Event-Triggered Control for Multi-Agent Systems Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Emilio Frazzoli, Karl Henrik Johansson · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 3 Nov 2011 | 2,564 |
| 15 | Randomized gossip algorithms Stephen Boyd, Aritra Ghosh, Balaji Prabhakar et al. · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Jun 2006 | 2,538 |
| 16 | A survey of multi-agent formation control Kwang‐Kyo Oh, Myoung‐Chul Park, Hyo‐Sung Ahn · Automatica | 28 Oct 2014 | 2,499 |
| 17 | An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-Agent Coordination Yongcan Cao, Wenwu Yu, Wei Ren et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | 15 Sep 2012 | 2,442 |
| 18 | Consensus of Multiagent Systems and Synchronization of Complex Networks: A Unified Viewpoint Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan, Guanrong Chen et al. · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers | 2 Jun 2009 | 2,418 |
| 19 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges Hazim Shakhatreh, Ahmad Sawalmeh, Ala Al‐Fuqaha et al. · IEEE Access | 2019 | 2,388 |
| 20 | Energy Minimization for Wireless Communication With Rotary-Wing UAV Yong Zeng, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 8 Mar 2019 | 2,204 |
| 21 | Energy-Efficient UAV Communication With Trajectory Optimization Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 28 Mar 2017 | 2,200 |
| 22 | Constrained Consensus and Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks A. Nedić, Asuman Ozdaglar, Pablo A. Parrilo · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 11 Feb 2010 | 2,173 |
| 23 | Consensus Problems on Networks With Antagonistic Interactions Claudio Altafini · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 11 Oct 2012 | 2,135 |
| 24 | Tracking control for multi-agent consensus with an active leader and variable topology Yiguang Hong, Jiangping Hu, Linxin Gao · Automatica | 18 Apr 2006 | 2,071 |
| 25 | Joint Trajectory and Communication Design for Multi-UAV Enabled Wireless Networks Qingqing Wu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 5 Jan 2018 | 2,063 |
| 26 | Emergent Behavior in Flocks Felipe Cucker, Steve Smale · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | May 2007 | 1,854 |
| 27 | The worldwide air transportation network: Anomalous centrality, community structure, and cities' global roles Roger Guimerà, Stefano Mossa, A. Turtschi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 23 May 2005 | 1,795 |
| 28 | Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective Manuele Brambilla, Eliseo Ferrante, Mauro Birattari et al. · Swarm Intelligence | 16 Jan 2013 | 1,776 |
| 29 | Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles for real-time multi-agent navigation Jur van den Berg, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha | May 2008 | 1,744 |
| 30 | Real-time obstacle avoidance for manipulators and mobile robots Oussama Khatib | 23 Mar 2005 | 1,738 |
| 31 | Distributed Kalman filtering for sensor networks Reza Olfati‐Saber | 2007 | 1,609 |
| 32 | AntNet: Distributed Stigmergetic Control for Communications Networks Gianni A. Di, Marco Dorigo · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research | Dec 1998 | 1,586 |
| 33 | Optimal control: Linear quadratic methods V. Kučera · Automatica | Sep 1992 | 1,520 |
| 34 | Maintaining Sensing Coverage and Connectivity in Large Sensor Networks Honghai Zhang, Jennifer C. Hou · Auerbach Publications eBooks | 8 Aug 2005 | 1,506 |
| 35 | Distributed multi‐vehicle coordinated controlvialocal information exchange Wei Ren, Ella M. Atkins · International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control | 8 Nov 2006 | 1,497 |
| 36 | Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones Dario Floreano, Robert J. Wood · Nature | 26 May 2015 | 1,472 |
| 37 | Leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems under fixed and switching topologies Wei Ni, Daizhan Cheng · Systems & Control Letters | Mar 2010 | 1,470 |
| 38 | Classifications, applications, and design challenges of drones: A review Mostafa Hassanalian, Abdessattar Abdelkefi · Progress in Aerospace Sciences | May 2017 | 1,455 |
| 39 | Flocking in Fixed and Switching Networks Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie, George J. Pappas · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | May 2007 | 1,442 |
| 40 | On Consensus Algorithms for Double-Integrator Dynamics Wei Ren · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Jul 2008 | 1,422 |
| 41 | Some necessary and sufficient conditions for second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems Wenwu Yu, Guanrong Chen, Ming Cao · Automatica | 21 Apr 2010 | 1,395 |
| 42 | A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, Ella M. Atkins | 10 Aug 2005 | 1,360 |
| 43 | Mobile Sensor Network Deployment using Potential Fields: A Distributed, Scalable Solution to the Area Coverage Problem Andrew B. Howard, Maja J. Matarić, Gaurav S. Sukhatme | 2002 | 1,337 |
| 44 | PID vs LQ control techniques applied to an indoor micro quadrotor Samir Bouabdallah, A. Noth, Roland Siegwart | 2004 | 1,296 |
| 45 | Virtual leaders, artificial potentials and coordinated control of groups Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Edward Fiorelli · Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228) | 10 Jul 2003 | 1,267 |
| 46 | Event-based broadcasting for multi-agent average consensus Georg S. Seyboth, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Karl Henrik Johansson · Automatica | 22 Oct 2012 | 1,250 |
| 47 | A survey of gossiping and broadcasting in communication networks Sandra M. Hedetniemi, Stephen T. Hedetniemi, Arthur L. Liestman · Networks | Dec 1988 | 1,249 |
| 48 | Cooperative Control of Mobile Sensor Networks: Adaptive Gradient Climbing in a Distributed Environment Petter Ögren, Edward Fiorelli, Naomi Ehrich Leonard · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Aug 2004 | 1,248 |
| 49 | Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions Y. Uny Cao, Alex S. Fukunaga, Andrew B. Kahng · Autonomous Robots | Mar 1997 | 1,239 |
| 50 | Distributed Optimization Over Time-Varying Directed Graphs Angelia Nedić, Alex Olshevsky · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 20 Oct 2014 | 1,232 |
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