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Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems

Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the modeling, optimization, and control of networked control systems, covering topics such as stability analysis, event-triggered control, time-delay systems, robust control, switched systems, H8 control, fuzzy control, distributed control, and communication constraints.

  • Networked Control Systems
  • Stability Analysis
  • Event-Triggered Control
  • Time-Delay Systems
  • Robust Control
  • Switched Systems
  • H8 Control
  • Fuzzy Control
  • Distributed Control
  • Communication Constraints
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
70% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems

Which countries lead Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.5k and 340 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.5k works
  2. 2 United States 340 works
  3. 3 France 241 works
  4. 4 India 222 works
  5. 5 South Korea 144 works
  6. 6 Brazil 124 works
  7. 7 Japan 120 works
  8. 8 Iran 106 works
  9. 9 Russia 102 works
  10. 10 Germany 97 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: 70.0%United States: 6.8%France: 4.8%India: 4.5%6 others listed: 13.9%70%largest
China3,495 · 70.0%United States340 · 6.8%France241 · 4.8%India222 · 4.5%6 others listed692 · 13.9%

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

Which institutions lead Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems research, followed by Northeastern University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 125 works
  2. 2 Northeastern UniversityChina 121 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 96 works
  4. 4 Qufu Normal UniversityChina 73 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 63 works
  6. 6 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 63 works
  7. 7 Shandong UniversityChina 61 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 61 works
  9. 9 Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60 works
  10. 10 Beihang UniversityChina 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems include Kai You Wang, H. Vincent Poor and Stephen Boyd.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations
  4. 4 Tasawar Hayat Pakistan 135k citations
  5. 5 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems?

The most cited paper in Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems is "Robust adaptive control" (Pétros Ioannou, Jing Sun, 1995), with 5,698 citations. Next come "Finite-Time Stability of Continuous Autonomous Systems" (5,497) and "Nonlinear Feedback Design for Fixed-Time Stabilization of Linear Control Systems" (5,211).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Robust adaptive control Pétros Ioannou, Jing Sun · American Control Conference Conference paper 15 Oct 1995 5,698
2 Finite-Time Stability of Continuous Autonomous Systems Sanjay P. Bhat, Dennis S. Bernstein · SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 2000 5,497
3 Nonlinear Feedback Design for Fixed-Time Stabilization of Linear Control Systems Andrey Polyakov · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Open access 15 Dec 2011 5,211
4 Higher-order sliding modes, differentiation and output-feedback control Arie Levant · International Journal of Control 2003 3,868
5 A Survey of Recent Results in Networked Control Systems Joo P. Hespanha, Payam Naghshtabrizi, Yonggang Xu · Proceedings of the IEEE 2007 3,842
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems research done?

The largest centres of Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Harbin (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Qufu, Jinzhou and Liaocheng.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 335 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 297 works
  3. 3 HarbinChina 219 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 211 works
  5. 5 JinanChina 179 works
  6. 6 ShenyangChina 151 works
  7. 7 QingdaoChina 136 works
  8. 8 DalianChina 121 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 118 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 107 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. QufuCN · 73.0 works65×
  2. JinzhouCN · 52.2 works36×
  3. LiaochengCN · 36.4 works31×
  4. Ma'anshan CityCN · 30.5 works28×
  5. LinyiCN · 20.5 works23×
  6. AnshanCN · 21.8 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, East China University of Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology and Dalian Maritime 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 22.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Bohai UniversityEast China Universit…Harbin Institute of …Dalian Maritime Univ…
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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
1East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.422.9%15.3×39 +30.3%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 59.717.6%14.7×124 -11.7%
3Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 58.916.6%33.4×63 +122.1%
4Bohai UniversityChina 58.426.5%66.1×35 +18.3%
5Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 58.336.3%16.4×19 -28.7%
6Northeastern UniversityChina 56.419.1%26.1×121 -36.0%
7Chengdu UniversityChina 56.325.4%18.0×19 +25.1%
8Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 55.637.5%6.7×10 -40.4%
9Qufu Normal UniversityChina 54.710.4%80.5×73 +12.3%
10Southeast UniversityChina 53.315.5%8.2×63 -5.4%

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 Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems, country by country

Is Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Stability and Control of Uncertain 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%Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems9.7% 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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