Aaron D. Ames

15.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
329 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Aaron D. Ames is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron D. Ames has authored 329 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 170 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 55 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Aaron D. Ames's work include Robotic Locomotion and Control (143 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (118 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (69 papers). Aaron D. Ames is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Locomotion and Control (143 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (118 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (69 papers). Aaron D. Ames collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Aaron D. Ames's co-authors include Jessy W. Grizzle, Paulo Tabuada, Magnus Egerstedt, Li Wang, Xiangru Xu, Ayonga Hereid, Shishir Kolathaya, Andrew Singletary, Ryan W. Sinnet and Koushil Sreenath and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Aaron D. Ames

310 papers receiving 8.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Control barrier function based quadratic programs with application to adaptive cruise control

2014 619 citations Aaron D. Ames et al. profile →
Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces

2020 531 citations Rachel Gehlhar, Aaron D. Ames et al. profile →
Safety Barrier Certificates for Collisions-Free Multirobot Systems

2017 491 citations Aaron D. Ames et al. profile →
Robustness of Control Barrier Functions for Safety Critical Control**This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grants 1239055, 1239037 and 1239085.

2015 314 citations Aaron D. Ames et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron D. Ames United States	43	4.7k	3.7k	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	329	9.0k
Chun‐Yi Su Canada	69	12.6k 2.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	2.2k 2.1×	503	16.8k
Russ Tedrake United States	45	3.4k 0.7×	4.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	416 0.4×	297 0.3×	140	7.9k
Yuval Tassa United States	20	3.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	814 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	30	8.7k
D.M. Dawson United States	55	10.2k 2.2×	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	636 0.6×	932 0.9×	369	13.1k
Koushil Sreenath United States	37	2.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	347 0.3×	599 0.6×	129	4.8k
Kok Kiong Tan Singapore	50	4.8k 1.0×	970 0.3×	784 0.5×	901 0.8×	714 0.7×	347	8.0k
Jessy W. Grizzle United States	54	5.6k 1.2×	5.2k 1.4×	921 0.6×	574 0.5×	472 0.5×	216	12.3k
Tom Erez United States	18	3.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	782 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	27	8.3k
Huaping Liu China	44	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	2.9k 1.9×	265 0.2×	592 0.6×	450	7.9k
J.-J.E. Slotine United States	38	7.9k 1.7×	1.4k 0.4×	957 0.6×	665 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	84	10.4k

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Dixit, Anushri, Mohamadreza Ahmadi, Lars Lindemann, et al.. (2025). Risk-Aware Robotics: Tail Risk Measures in Planning, Control, and Verification [Focus on Education]. IEEE Control Systems. 45(4). 46–78. 2 indexed citations

Ames, Aaron D., et al.. (2025). Control Barrier Function Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems with Dual Relative Degree. 8208–8215.

Molnár, Tamás G., et al.. (2025). Collision Avoidance and Geofencing for Fixed-Wing Aircraft With Control Barrier Functions. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 33(5). 1493–1508. 4 indexed citations

Dixit, Anushri, et al.. (2024). Sample-based bounds for coherent risk measures: Applications to policy synthesis and verification. Artificial Intelligence. 336. 104195–104195. 5 indexed citations

Cohen, M., Tamás G. Molnár, & Aaron D. Ames. (2024). Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models. Annual Reviews in Control. 57. 100947–100947. 26 indexed citations

Ames, Aaron D., et al.. (2024). Robust Safety-Critical Control for Input-Delayed System with Delay Estimation. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 2218–2223. 1 indexed citations

Ames, Aaron D., et al.. (2024). Generative Modeling of Residuals for Real-Time Risk-Sensitive Safety with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions. i–viii. 7 indexed citations

Gehlhar, Rachel, et al.. (2023). A review of current state-of-the-art control methods for lower-limb powered prostheses. Annual Reviews in Control. 55. 142–164. 70 indexed citations

Kane, John M., et al.. (2023). 103 Trends in Cannabis Use in New Jersey: Effects of COVID and Cannabis Legalization. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 82(4). S44–S45.

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Ames, Aaron D., et al.. (2023). Hierarchical Relaxation of Safety-critical Controllers: Mitigating Contradictory Safety Conditions with Application to Quadruped Robots. 2384–2391. 10 indexed citations

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Taylor, Andrew J., et al.. (2023). Control Barrier Functions and Input-to-State Safety With Application to Automated Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 31(6). 2744–2759. 59 indexed citations

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Ahmadi, Mohamadreza, Ugo Rosolia, Michel D. Ingham, Richard M. Murray, & Aaron D. Ames. (2023). Risk-Averse Decision Making Under Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 69(1). 55–68. 4 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Devansh R., et al.. (2021). A Constructive Method for Designing Safe Multirate Controllers for Differentially-Flat Systems. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 6. 2138–2143. 11 indexed citations

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Garg, Kunal, et al.. (2021). Multi-Rate Control Design Under Input Constraints via Fixed-Time Barrier Functions. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 6. 608–613. 16 indexed citations

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Taylor, Andrew J., et al.. (2020). Safety-Critical Event Triggered Control via Input-to-State Safe Barrier Functions. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 5(3). 749–754. 33 indexed citations

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Taylor, Andrew J., Andrew Singletary, Yisong Yue, & Aaron D. Ames. (2020). A Control Barrier Perspective on Episodic Learning via Projection-to-State Safety. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 5(3). 1019–1024. 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuxiao, Ugo Rosolia, Chuchu Fan, Aaron D. Ames, & Richard M. Murray. (2020). Reactive motion planning with probabilisticsafety guarantees.. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 1958–1970. 1 indexed citations

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Hubicki, Christian, et al.. (2020). Learning Terrain Dynamics: A Gaussian Process Modeling and Optimal Control Adaptation Framework Applied to Robotic Jumping. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 29(4). 1581–1596. 14 indexed citations

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Sinnet, Ryan W., Huihua Zhao, & Aaron D. Ames. (2011). Simulating Prosthetic Devices with Human-Inspired Hybrid Control. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2 indexed citations

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Ames, Aaron D., et al.. (2002). Three-dimensional object recognition using invariant Euclidean signature curves. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. eBooks. 13–23. 5 indexed citations

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