Guidance and Control Systems
Guidance and Control Systems is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 32.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the development and analysis of missile guidance and control strategies, including pursuit-evasion games, impact time control, sliding mode guidance, cooperative attack scenarios, optimal control laws, and maneuvering target interception. The research covers a wide range of topics related to the guidance and control of missiles for various mission objectives.
- Missile Guidance
- Control
- Pursuit-Evasion Games
- Impact Time
- Sliding Mode
- Cooperative Attack
- Integrated Guidance
- Optimal Control
- Maneuvering Targets
- Autopilot
- Research works
- 19k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 6.1k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 32.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +14% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Guidance and Control Systems research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 327 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 2.1k works
- 2 United States 327 works
- 3 India 181 works
- 4 Russia 133 works
- 5 South Korea 85 works
- 6 Türkiye 62 works
- 7 United Kingdom 58 works
- 8 Italy 52 works
- 9 Germany 49 works
- 10 Canada 43 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Guidance and Control Systems research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Northwestern Polytechnical University publishes the most Guidance and Control Systems research, followed by Beihang University and Beijing Institute of Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 174 works
- 2 Beihang UniversityChina 141 works
- 3 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 123 works
- 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 91 works
- 5 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 89 works
- 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 86 works
- 7 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 78 works
- 8 Air Force Engineering UniversityChina 62 works
- 9 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 30 works
- 10 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 29 works
Who are the leading researchers in Guidance and Control Systems?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Guidance and Control Systems include Peng Shi, Frank L. Lewis and Brian D. O. Anderson.
- 1 Peng Shi Australia 5k citations
- 2 Frank L. Lewis United States 3.8k citations
- 3 Brian D. O. Anderson Australia 3.6k citations
- 4 Roland Siegwart Switzerland 3.3k citations
- 5 Lihua Xie Singapore 3.2k citations
- 6 Miroslav Krstić United States 3.1k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Guidance and Control Systems research done?
The largest centres of Guidance and Control Systems research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Harbin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xi'an and Harbin.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Xi'anCN · 329.4 works12×
- HarbinCN · 127.8 works8.9×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Guidance and Control Systems than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Guidance and Control Systems?
Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Northwestern Polytechnical 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.
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 | Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina | 72.2 | 48.3% | 15.6× | 91 | -5.9% |
| 2 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea | 72.0 | 55.0% | 15.1× | 25 | +11.7% |
| 3 | Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina | 71.4 | 42.3% | 42.8× | 174 | -24.6% |
| 4 | Beihang UniversityChina | 70.4 | 39.4% | 35.9× | 141 | +25.0% |
| 5 | Cranfield UniversityUnited Kingdom | 66.7 | 40.0% | 27.9× | 13 | +98.8% |
| 6 | Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina | 66.4 | 37.4% | 29.0× | 123 | -4.3% |
| 7 | National University of Defense TechnologyChina | 63.0 | 37.4% | 32.3× | 89 | +16.3% |
| 8 | Air Force Engineering UniversityChina | 62.1 | 43.5% | 118.5× | 62 | -27.9% |
| 9 | Dalian Maritime UniversityChina | 62.0 | 32.2% | 22.2× | 29 | +155.0% |
| 10 | Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia | 62.0 | 34.7% | 16.8× | 26 | +112.7% |
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 Guidance and Control Systems research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 14% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Guidance and Control Systems.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.