Amir Melzer

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Amir Melzer is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Melzer has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Amir Melzer's work include Aerospace and Aviation Technology (5 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (4 papers) and Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks (4 papers). Amir Melzer is often cited by papers focused on Aerospace and Aviation Technology (5 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (4 papers) and Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks (4 papers). Amir Melzer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. Amir Melzer's co-authors include C. Dario Bellicoso, Christian Gehring, Péter Fankhauser, Michael Bloesch, Remo Diethelm, Karen Bodie, Jemin Hwangbo, Dominic Jud, Marco Hutter and Vassilios Tsounis and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Sensors Journal, Journal of Field Robotics and Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich).

In The Last Decade

Amir Melzer

13 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ANYmal - a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot

2016 597 citations Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amir Melzer Switzerland	11	673	450	339	206	175	14	1.2k
Bong-Huan Jun South Korea	19	364 0.5×	508 1.1×	540 1.6×	279 1.4×	197 1.1×	96	1.5k
Minzhou Luo China	20	401 0.6×	269 0.6×	439 1.3×	320 1.6×	205 1.2×	104	1.2k
Edin Omerdić Ireland	16	125 0.2×	256 0.6×	550 1.6×	246 1.2×	248 1.4×	94	1.3k
Konstantinos Karydis United States	14	230 0.3×	314 0.7×	197 0.6×	321 1.6×	143 0.8×	68	806
Begoña C. Arrue Spain	21	134 0.2×	585 1.3×	236 0.7×	641 3.1×	170 1.0×	59	1.3k
Ioannis Poulakakis United States	21	1.5k 2.3×	465 1.0×	614 1.8×	200 1.0×	266 1.5×	68	1.8k
Brian Wilcox United States	20	555 0.8×	520 1.2×	371 1.1×	475 2.3×	461 2.6×	100	1.5k
Pan-Mook Lee South Korea	21	302 0.4×	604 1.3×	934 2.8×	378 1.8×	242 1.4×	126	2.1k
Xuechao Chen China	16	718 1.1×	91 0.2×	342 1.0×	109 0.5×	154 0.9×	160	993
John Bares United States	15	414 0.6×	238 0.5×	391 1.2×	348 1.7×	411 2.3×	30	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amir Melzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amir Melzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amir Melzer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amir Melzer. Amir Melzer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Jouvet, Guillaume, Thomas Stastny, Philipp Oettershagen, et al.. (2018). Sun2Ice: Monitoring calving glaciers from solar-powered UAVs. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich).

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Oettershagen, Philipp, Amir Melzer, Thomas Mantel, et al.. (2017). Design of small hand‐launched solar‐powered UAVs: From concept study to a multi‐day world endurance record flight. Journal of Field Robotics. 34(7). 1352–1377. 75 indexed citations

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Stastny, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Model-based wind estimation for a hovering VTOL tailsitter UAV. 3945–3952. 15 indexed citations

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Oettershagen, Philipp, Thomas Stastny, Timo Hinzmann, et al.. (2017). Robotic technologies for solar‐powered UAVs: Fully autonomous updraft‐aware aerial sensing for multiday search‐and‐rescue missions. Journal of Field Robotics. 35(4). 612–640. 33 indexed citations

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Oettershagen, Philipp, Amir Melzer, Thomas Mantel, et al.. (2016). Perpetual flight with a small solar-powered UAV: Flight results, performance analysis and model validation. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 7500855. 29 indexed citations

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Hinzmann, Timo, Thomas Schneider, Marcin Dymczyk, et al.. (2016). Robust map generation for fixed-wing UAVs with low-cost highly-oblique monocular cameras. 38. 3261–3268. 6 indexed citations

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Hutter, Marco, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, et al.. (2016). ANYmal - a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot. 38–44. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hutter, Marco, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, et al.. (2016). ANYmal - A Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 187 indexed citations

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Oettershagen, Philipp, Amir Melzer, Thomas Mantel, et al.. (2016). Perpetual flight with a small solar-powered UAV: Flight results, performance analysis and model validation. 1–8. 55 indexed citations

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Oettershagen, Philipp, Amir Melzer, Thomas Mantel, et al.. (2015). A solar-powered hand-launchable UAV for low-altitude multi-day continuous flight. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 3986–3993. 77 indexed citations

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Nikolic, Janosch, Paul Furgale, Amir Melzer, & Roland Siegwart. (2015). Maximum Likelihood Identification of Inertial Sensor Noise Model Parameters. IEEE Sensors Journal. 16(1). 163–176. 33 indexed citations

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Leutenegger, Stefan, Amir Melzer, Kostas Alexis, & Roland Siegwart. (2014). Robust state estimation for small unmanned airplanes. 1003–1010. 22 indexed citations

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Oettershagen, Philipp, Amir Melzer, Stefan Leutenegger, Kostas Alexis, & Roland Siegwart. (2014). Explicit model predictive control and L<inf>1</inf>-navigation strategies for fixed-wing UAV path tracking. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 1159–1165. 22 indexed citations

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Gege, Peter, et al.. (2013). CDOM retrieval using measurements of downwelling irradiance. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8888. 88880I–88880I. 2 indexed citations

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