Adrian Wills

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Adrian Wills is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrian Wills has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Adrian Wills's work include Control Systems and Identification (52 papers), Fault Detection and Control Systems (40 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (25 papers). Adrian Wills is often cited by papers focused on Control Systems and Identification (52 papers), Fault Detection and Control Systems (40 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (25 papers). Adrian Wills collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and United Kingdom. Adrian Wills's co-authors include Brett Ninness, Thomas B. Schön, Lennart Ljung, William P. Heath, Andrew J. Fleming, Anna Hagenblad, Adam J. Mills, S. O. Reza Moheimani, Stuart Gibson and Chengpu Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Adrian Wills

88 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

System identification of nonlinear state-space models 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. System identification of nonlinear state-space models
    2010 389 citations Thomas B. Schön, Adrian Wills et al. Automatica profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adrian Wills Australia 25 1.8k 547 323 240 216 92 2.5k
Wen‐Juan Lin China 20 701 0.4× 242 0.4× 185 0.6× 386 1.6× 181 0.8× 42 1.7k
Zhenhua Wang China 33 2.6k 1.4× 593 1.1× 88 0.3× 197 0.8× 183 0.8× 215 3.2k
M.J. Grimble United Kingdom 34 3.8k 2.0× 651 1.2× 177 0.5× 320 1.3× 527 2.4× 406 4.7k
S. Bittanti Italy 34 2.7k 1.5× 457 0.8× 667 2.1× 359 1.5× 634 2.9× 261 4.4k
H. Unbehauen Germany 26 2.7k 1.4× 500 0.9× 312 1.0× 209 0.9× 398 1.8× 170 3.1k
Brett Ninness Australia 30 3.0k 1.7× 708 1.3× 752 2.3× 300 1.3× 254 1.2× 138 3.9k
Tohru Katayama Japan 19 1.8k 1.0× 247 0.5× 378 1.2× 127 0.5× 193 0.9× 147 2.2k
Ioan Doré Landau France 34 3.3k 1.8× 418 0.8× 409 1.3× 346 1.4× 550 2.5× 203 4.1k
Andrew Packard United States 30 2.8k 1.5× 142 0.3× 179 0.6× 300 1.3× 242 1.1× 113 4.0k
P. Dorato United States 30 4.3k 2.4× 344 0.6× 157 0.5× 284 1.2× 260 1.2× 122 5.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adrian Wills

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adrian Wills

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wills, Adrian, et al.. (2025). Estimation of distribution grid line parameters using smart meter data with missing measurements. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 168. 110634–110634.
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Ribbons, Karen, Sarah J. Johnson, Adrian Wills, et al.. (2025). Determining patient activity goals and their fulfillment following total knee arthroplasty: Findings from the prospective, observational SuPeR Knee study. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0317205–e0317205.
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Ribbons, Karen, Sarah J. Johnson, Adrian Wills, et al.. (2025). Biopsychosocial based machine learning models predict patient improvement after total knee arthroplasty. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4926–4926. 1 indexed citations
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Wills, Adrian, et al.. (2024). Modified Distflow: Novel Power Flow Model for Distribution Grid. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Wills, Adrian, et al.. (2023). Inferring the probability distribution over strain tensors in polycrystals from diffraction based measurements. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 417. 116417–116417.
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Wills, Adrian, et al.. (2023). A Numerically Robust Bayesian Filtering Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Models. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(1). 67–72. 3 indexed citations
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Wills, Adrian, et al.. (2022). Smoothed State Estimation via Efficient Solution of Linear Equations. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68(10). 5877–5889. 2 indexed citations
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Eielsen, Arnfinn A., John Leth, Andrew J. Fleming, Adrian Wills, & Brett Ninness. (2020). Large-Amplitude Dithering Mitigates Glitches in Digital-to-Analogue Converters. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 68. 1950–1963. 7 indexed citations
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Flynn, Traci, et al.. (2020). Clinical Decision Support Tools for Predicting Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 36(5). 1832–1845.e1. 10 indexed citations
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Yu, Chengpu, Lennart Ljung, Adrian Wills, & Michel Verhaegen. (2019). Constrained Subspace Method for the Identification of Structured State-Space Models (COSMOS). IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 65(10). 4201–4214. 69 indexed citations
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Wensrich, C.M., Adrian Wills, Anton S. Tremsin, et al.. (2018). Tomographic Reconstruction of Two-Dimensional Residual Strain Fields from Bragg-Edge Neutron Imaging. Physical Review Applied. 10(6). 19 indexed citations
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Wills, Adrian, et al.. (2017). Gradient-based optimization for efficient exposure planning in maskless lithography. Journal of Micro/Nanolithography MEMS and MOEMS. 16(3). 1–1. 8 indexed citations
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Giudice, Antonio Del, et al.. (2017). Development of a planning tool for network ancillary services using customer-owned solar and battery storage. ENEA Open Archive (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development). 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Fleming, Andrew J., et al.. (2016). A nonlinear programming approach to exposure optimization in scanning laser lithography. 5811–5816. 4 indexed citations
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Hagenblad, Anna, Lennart Ljung, & Adrian Wills. (2008). Maximum likelihood identification of Wiener models. Automatica. 44(11). 2697–2705. 143 indexed citations
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Heath, William P. & Adrian Wills. (2006). Zames-Falb multipliers for quadratic programming. 963–968. 13 indexed citations
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Heath, William P. & Adrian Wills. (2004). Design of Cross-Directional Controllers with Optimal Steady State Performance*. European Journal of Control. 10(1). 15–27. 23 indexed citations
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McNicholas, Michael, et al.. (2003). Joint Conference of BASEM and BASES. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 37(5). 464–470. 9 indexed citations

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