Control and Systems Engineering papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 62 papers from Control and Systems Engineering (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: Variational Mode Decomposition (2014, 8,749 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 62,648 citations between them.
• 14 of the 14 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 1 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
• Published between 2012 and 2019.

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

• Variational Mode Decomposition

  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 129.03 · 8,749 citations

  A new non-recursive Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) model extracts signal modes concurrently, offering improved robustness to noise and sampling issues compared to existing methods.

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• A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation

  2017 · FWCI 166.41 · 6,734 citations

  This work introduces a unified mathematical framework for robot manipulator kinematics, dynamics, and control, emphasizing the geometry of motion.

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• MuJoCo: A physics engine for model-based control

  2012 · 4,474 citations

  A new physics engine, MuJoCo, has been developed for model-based control, featuring efficient recursive algorithms for multi-joint dynamics and a novel velocity-stepping approach for contact responses.

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• Overview of current development in electrical energy storage technologies and the application potential in power system operation

  Applied Energy · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 204.90 · 3,730 citations

  This paper provides a comprehensive overview and comparative analysis of various electrical energy storage (EES) technologies to aid in selecting the most suitable options for power system integration.

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• Control of Power Converters in AC Microgrids

  IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 190.09 · 3,623 citations

  This paper provides an overview of AC microgrid structures and control techniques, focusing on power converter configurations and hierarchical control layers.

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• The Uncanny Valley [From the Field]

  IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 86.89 · 3,281 citations

  This paper presents the first authorized English translation of Masahiro Mori's seminal 1970 essay, which introduced the concept of the "uncanny valley."

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• Microscopic Traffic Simulation using SUMO

  2018 · 3,156 citations

  This article details recent advancements in the open-source traffic simulator SUMO, focusing on intermodal traffic, simulator coupling, and model development/validation.

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• A Survey of Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Techniques—Part I: Fault Diagnosis With Model-Based and Signal-Based Approaches

  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 154.81 · 3,036 citations

  This paper provides a comprehensive review of fault diagnosis techniques, focusing on model-based and signal-based approaches developed over the last decade.

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• Trends in Microgrid Control

  IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 226.73 · 3,000 citations

  This review categorizes microgrid control strategies into primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, detailing state-of-the-art approaches and challenges for integrating intermittent renewable energy sources.

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• Disturbance-Observer-Based Control and Related Methods—An Overview

  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 128.12 · 2,857 citations

  This paper provides a comprehensive overview of disturbance-observer-based control (DOBC) and related techniques for estimating and mitigating disturbances and uncertainties in industrial systems.

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• Empirical Wavelet Transform

  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 62.95 · 2,180 citations

  A new 'empirical wavelet transform' (EWT) is introduced, which constructs adaptive wavelets by extracting signal modes via a designed wavelet filter bank.

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• Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical Systems

  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 25.90 · 2,167 citations

  This paper introduces a new method to unify safety conditions (control barrier functions) with performance goals (control Lyapunov functions) within real-time optimization controllers for safety-critical systems.

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• A New Convolutional Neural Network-Based Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis Method

  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 74.92 · 2,134 citations

  A novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method automatically extracts fault features from 2-D images of industrial signals, eliminating the need for expert-defined features.

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• Attack Detection and Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems

  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 117.10 · 2,075 citations

  This paper introduces a novel mathematical framework to detect and identify malicious attacks in cyber-physical systems, establishing fundamental monitoring limitations.

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• Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Engineering Systems

  2017 · FWCI 27.63 · 2,003 citations

  This book presents a model-based approach for fault detection and diagnosis in engineering systems.

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• Advanced Control Architectures for Intelligent Microgrids—Part I: Decentralized and Hierarchical Control

  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 178.43 · 1,954 citations

  This review categorizes and discusses advanced control techniques for microgrids, focusing on decentralized, distributed, and hierarchical approaches for both grid-connected and islanded operation.

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• Dynamic Triggering Mechanisms for Event-Triggered Control

  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 38.29 · 1,934 citations

  A new class of dynamic event triggering mechanisms is introduced for control systems, utilizing an internal dynamic variable to improve stability and performance.

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• An introduction to event-triggered and self-triggered control

  2012 · 1,904 citations

  This paper introduces event-triggered and self-triggered control systems, which perform sensing and actuation only when necessary, unlike traditional periodic methods.

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• rstatix: Pipe-Friendly Framework for Basic Statistical Tests

  2019 · 1,850 citations · Open access

  The rstatix R package offers a user-friendly, pipe-friendly framework for conducting common statistical tests and visualizing results, designed to integrate seamlessly with the 'tidyverse'.

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• A Hybrid Prognostics Approach for Estimating Remaining Useful Life of Rolling Element Bearings

  IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 41.88 · 1,807 citations

  A novel hybrid prognostics method, combining sparse representation via relevance vector machine regression with exponential degradation models and Fréchet distance, significantly improves the accuracy and convergence of remaining useful life (RUL) predictions for rolling element bearings.

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Recently added

• State Spaces of Multifactor Approximations of Nonnegative Volterra Processes

  Stochastic Systems · 2026 · Q1 · FWCI 3.17 · 2 citations

  The state spaces of multifactor Markovian processes approximating nonnegative Volterra processes are shown to be explicit linear transformations of the nonnegative orthant.

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• Extended second-order multi-class traffic flow model with the relative drag function

  Transportmetrica B Transport Dynamics · 2026 · Q1 · 2 citations

  A new second-order multi-class traffic flow model introduces a 'relative drag function' to account for lane discipline violations and heterogeneous speeds, showing more realistic heterogeneous traffic behavior.

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• An Introduction to Input/Output Automata

  Formal Aspects of Computing · 2026 · Q3 · FWCI 3.17 · 1,020 citations

  This paper introduces the Input/Output Automaton (I/O automaton) model, a formal framework designed for specifying and reasoning about concurrent and distributed discrete event systems.

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• Advanced PID Control

  2026 · FWCI 85.43 · 1,104 citations

  This book extends foundational PID control concepts to advanced techniques, offering a pathway from basic to model-based controllers.

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• Fault Detection Method based on Artificial Neural Network for 330kV Nigerian Transmission Line

  International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) · 2024 · FWCI 511.81 · 1,767 citations

  An artificial neural network (ANN) model successfully identified five conditions (four fault types and no fault) on a 330kV Nigerian transmission line using voltage and current data.

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• Learning dexterous in-hand manipulation

  The International Journal of Robotics Research · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 108.83 · 1,607 citations · Open access

  Reinforcement learning policies trained entirely in simulation successfully transferred to a physical robot, enabling vision-based dexterous in-hand object reorientation without human demonstrations.

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• Deep Residual Shrinkage Networks for Fault Diagnosis

  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 45.90 · 1,385 citations

  Deep residual shrinkage networks (DRSNs) automatically learn to filter noise and diagnose faults from vibration signals, achieving high accuracy without requiring expert signal processing knowledge.

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• rstatix: Pipe-Friendly Framework for Basic Statistical Tests

  2019 · 1,850 citations · Open access

  The rstatix R package offers a user-friendly, pipe-friendly framework for conducting common statistical tests and visualizing results, designed to integrate seamlessly with the 'tidyverse'.

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