Aerospace Engineering papers
Pofolia’s corpus holds 98 papers from Aerospace Engineering (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.
At a glance
- Most cited: Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite (2012, 14,478 citations).
- The 20 papers listed have 94,754 citations between them.
- 12 of the 12 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
- 2 have a free full text (open access).
- Most frequent journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine.
- Published between 2012 and 2021.
Most cited
Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals
Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite
2012 · 14,478 citations
A new benchmark suite, KITTI, has been developed for autonomous driving scenarios, featuring challenging real-world data for stereo, optical flow, visual odometry, and 3D object detection tasks.
Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset
The International Journal of Robotics Research · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 3566.48 · 9,788 citations
A new dataset, KITTI, is released for mobile robotics and autonomous driving research, featuring 6 hours of diverse traffic scenarios captured with multiple high-resolution sensors.
ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 7602.61 · 6,506 citations
ORB-SLAM is a novel, feature-based monocular SLAM system that operates in real-time across diverse environments and is robust to motion clutter.
ORB-SLAM2: An Open-Source SLAM System for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 5561.77 · 6,045 citations
ORB-SLAM2 is a new, open-source Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system that works in real-time on standard CPUs for monocular, stereo, and RGB-D cameras.
Applied Optimal Control
2018 · FWCI 1057.57 · 6,009 citations
This abstract describes a best-selling textbook on the analysis and design of complex dynamic systems, praised for its clarity and usefulness.
Structure-from-Motion Revisited
2016 · 5,887 citations
A novel Structure-from-Motion (SfM) technique is introduced to significantly improve robustness, accuracy, completeness, and scalability in 3D reconstruction from image collections.
VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 2832.86 · 4,463 citations · Open access
VINS-Mono is a new monocular visual-inertial state estimator that achieves high accuracy by tightly coupling IMU measurements with feature observations using nonlinear optimization. It also incorporates loop detection and pose graph optimization for global consistency and map reuse.
Wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities and challenges
IEEE Communications Magazine · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 7652.62 · 4,065 citations
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for cost-effective wireless connectivity in areas lacking infrastructure, enabling faster deployment and more flexible reconfiguration than terrestrial systems.
A benchmark for the evaluation of RGB-D SLAM systems
2012 · 3,948 citations
A new benchmark dataset and evaluation tools are introduced for RGB-D SLAM systems, featuring high-accuracy ground truth from a motion capture system and diverse sequences recorded in office and industrial environments.
ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual–Inertial, and Multimap SLAM
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2021 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 2490.50 · 3,886 citations · Open access
ORB-SLAM3 is the first open-source library to achieve accurate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using visual, visual-inertial, and multimap approaches with various camera types and lens models.
ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System
Zaguan (University of Zaragoza Repository) · 2015 · FWCI 8576.91 · 3,383 citations
ORB-SLAM is a novel, real-time monocular SLAM system that uses the same features for all tasks, achieving unprecedented performance in diverse environments.
Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Toward the Robust-Perception Age
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 3738.39 · 3,317 citations
This paper reviews the 30-year progress of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), highlighting its transition to industry and outlining future research challenges.
Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and mapping: Toward the robust-perception age
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) · 2016 · FWCI 4702.29 · 3,158 citations
This review surveys the significant progress in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) over 30 years, highlighting its transition from research to industry and its role in enabling large-scale real-world applications.
Optimal LAP Altitude for Maximum Coverage
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 940.09 · 3,150 citations
This paper analytically determines the optimal altitude for low-altitude aerial platforms (LAPs) to maximize ground radio coverage, finding it depends on pathloss limits and urban environment statistics.
LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time
2014 · 3,117 citations
A new real-time method, LOAM, enables simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using 2-axis lidar range measurements, achieving accuracy comparable to offline methods without high-precision sensors or inertial measurements.
Direct Sparse Odometry
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 3792.27 · 2,928 citations
Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) introduces a novel formulation for visual odometry that jointly optimizes camera motion and 3D structure using a direct, sparse, and probabilistic model, achieving real-time performance.
A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks:applications, challenges, and open problems
University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu) · 2019 · FWCI 2963.43 · 2,850 citations
This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in wireless networks, detailing their applications, significant challenges, and future research directions.
A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 1339.27 · 2,696 citations
This paper provides a tutorial on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) principles and theory, covering established and emerging techniques, and innovative technologies.
Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research
Remote Sensing of Environment · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 3847.28 · 2,591 citations
Landsat 8 enhances Earth observation with new spectral bands and improved sensor performance, extending a 40-year data record for global change research.
Microsoft Kinect Sensor and Its Effect
IEEE Multimedia · 2012 · Q1 · FWCI 3695.11 · 2,489 citations
The Microsoft Kinect sensor, beyond gaming, offers direct 3D depth sensing and user understanding (voice, identity, movement) for multimedia computing.
Recently added
EH-SWADS: energy-harvesting smart weather-aware drone sink for agricultural WSNs
Scientific Reports · 2026 · Q1
EH-SWADS, an energy-harvesting UAV-assisted WSN architecture, extends agricultural monitoring lifetime by 668% compared to non-harvesting baselines, driven by solar energy replenishment and weather-aware sink handover.
Deep neural network-driven adaptive fusion recognition method for radar-optical heterogeneous remote sensing imagery
Scientific Reports · 2026 · Q1
A novel deep neural network framework adaptively fuses radar and optical remote sensing imagery, achieving 91.38% accuracy and outperforming 10 baselines with 11.4 ms inference time.
Asymmetric deflagration characteristics of hydrogen-blended natural gas under multiscale conditions: The influence of ignition location
Fuel · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
Ignition location significantly alters hydrogen-blended natural gas deflagration, with its influence changing markedly with chamber scale, from multi-peak pressure waves in large chambers to localized effects in small ones.
Landmark-aware visual localization for GNSS-denied UAV wind farm inspection via lifecycle binding and adaptive fusion
Scientific Reports · 2026 · Q1
A new visual localization system for UAVs in GNSS-denied wind farms achieves 8.33m 3D RMSE (vs. 234.8m baseline) in simulation and 24.95m RMSE in field tests, using wind turbine towers as landmarks.
Impact of SRR and CSRR placement strategies on microstrip antenna array performance: a comprehensive numerical and experimental investigation
Journal of Engineering and Applied Science · 2026 · Q2
A 2-element microstrip antenna array with optimized circular CSRR placement achieved a 50.72% reduction in mutual coupling, 5.63% gain improvement, 6.37% radiation efficiency improvement, and 10.72% sidelobe suppression compared to a reference array.
Aeroelastic optimization of a small scale horizontal axis wind turbine using particle swarm algorithm
Advances in Aerodynamics · 2026 · Q1
Optimized flexible wind turbine blades achieved a 12.5% aerodynamic performance improvement, 7.15% weight reduction, and 22% less displacement compared to a baseline.
Whisker-based tactile flight for tiny drones
Nature Communications · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 4.00
A 3.2-gram whisker-based tactile sensing apparatus allows tiny drones to autonomously avoid obstacles and explore confined spaces using millimeter-scale depth estimation, even in complete darkness and with limited onboard memory (192 KB).
A Random Forest–Based Global Gridded Model for Vertical Correction of Precipitable Water Vapor Accounting for Nonlinear Vertical Variation
Journal of Geophysical Research Machine Learning and Computation · 2026 · Q1
A new global model, RF-PWV, uses random forest to correct precipitable water vapor (PWV) vertically, achieving 95% less bias and 32% lower RMSE than existing models when validated against ERA5 data.
Journals in this field
The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?
| Journal | Quartile | SJR | h-index | In this field | Summaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Q1 | 3.00 | 212 | 7 | 7 |
| Scientific Reports | Q1 | — | 382 | 6 | 170 |
| IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | Q1 | 3.00 | 277 | 5 | 9 |
| International Journal of Robotics Research | Q1 | 2.00 | 209 | 5 | 8 |
| IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials | Q1 | 14.00 | 314 | 4 | 19 |
| Wind Energy Science | Q1 | 1.00 | 49 | 4 | 5 |
| Science | Q1 | 10.00 | 1433 | 2 | 268 |
| IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Q1 | 4.00 | 460 | 2 | 27 |
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