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Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems

Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 advanced control systems for vehicle dynamics, including autonomous vehicles, model predictive control, estimation of tire-road friction, active steering, yaw stability control, and driver assistance. The research aims to improve the performance, safety, and stability of vehicles through innovative control strategies and technologies.

  • Vehicle Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Tire-Road Friction Estimation
  • Active Steering
  • Yaw Stability Control
  • Path Tracking
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Driver Assistance
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems

Which countries lead Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3k and 503 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 United States 503 works
  3. 3 India 435 works
  4. 4 Germany 397 works
  5. 5 Japan 227 works
  6. 6 South Korea 216 works
  7. 7 Italy 207 works
  8. 8 Vietnam 151 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 141 works
  10. 10 France 139 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: 55.5%United States: 9.3%India: 8.0%Germany: 7.3%6 others listed: 19.9%56%largest
China3,017 · 55.5%United States503 · 9.3%India435 · 8.0%Germany397 · 7.3%6 others listed1,080 · 19.9%

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

Which institutions lead Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Institute of Technology publishes the most Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems research, followed by Jilin University and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 116 works
  2. 2 Jilin UniversityChina 110 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 106 works
  4. 4 Tongji UniversityChina 104 works
  5. 5 Jiangsu UniversityChina 83 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 79 works
  7. 7 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 60 works
  8. 8 Southeast UniversityChina 53 works
  9. 9 Yanshan UniversityChina 53 works
  10. 10 Beihang UniversityChina 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems include Wei Huang, Yi Ping Cui and L. Li.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  3. 3 L. Li France 211k citations
  4. 4 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  5. 5 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  6. 6 Shiwei Liu United States 148k citations
  7. 7 A. Pfeiffer Germany 143k 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 Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems?

The most cited paper in Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems is "Survey of Numerical Methods for Trajectory Optimization" (John T. Betts, 1998), with 2,610 citations. Next come "Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical Systems" (2,442) and "Perspectives and results on the stability and stabilizability of hybrid systems" (1,632).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Survey of Numerical Methods for Trajectory Optimization John T. Betts · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics Mar 1998 2,610
2 Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical Systems Aaron D. Ames, Xiangru Xu, Jessy W. Grizzle et al. · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Open access 13 Dec 2016 2,442
3 Perspectives and results on the stability and stabilizability of hybrid systems Raymond A. DeCarlo, Michael S. Branicky, Stefan Pettersson et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE Jul 2000 1,632
4 Predictive Active Steering Control for Autonomous Vehicle Systems Paolo Falcone, Francesco Borrelli, Jahan Asgari et al. · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Open access May 2007 1,417
5 THE MAGIC FORMULA TYRE MODEL Hans B. Pacejka, Egbert Bakker · Vehicle System Dynamics 1992 1,317
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems research done?

The largest centres of Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changchun and Qinhuangdao.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 495 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 233 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 233 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 130 works
  5. 5 ChangchunChina 127 works
  6. 6 ChongqingChina 126 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 120 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 102 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 93 works
  10. 10 HanoiVietnam 89 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Changchun20.3 works34×
  2. QinhuangdaoCN · 52.8 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Thuyloi University, Northeastern University and Beijing 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.

0%20%40%mean 22.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Thuyloi UniversityNortheastern Univers…Beijing Institute of…Tsinghua 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
1Thuyloi UniversityVietnam 74.135.5%114.8×21 +415.2%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 72.533.8%7.6×41 +142.4%
3Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 71.018.5%16.1×116 +34.9%
4Tsinghua UniversityChina 70.117.9%7.6×106 +57.2%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 69.122.8%17.2×83 +57.4%
6Southeast UniversityChina 65.821.9%5.9×53 +100.7%
7Jilin UniversityChina 65.518.1%15.8×110 +6.4%
8Tongji UniversityChina 65.013.2%11.2×104 +43.4%
9University of MacauChina 64.227.2%6.1×12 +76.9%
10Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 62.913.9%14.8×79 +56.1%

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 Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems, country by country

Is Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems.

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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 Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vehicle Dynamics and Control 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%Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems9.8% 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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