Charles Dawson

656 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 354 citations indexed

About

Charles Dawson is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Dawson has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 354 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Charles Dawson's work include Advanced Control Systems Optimization (4 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (3 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (2 papers). Charles Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Control Systems Optimization (4 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (3 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (2 papers). Charles Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Charles Dawson's co-authors include Chuchu Fan, Sicun Gao, Vincent Guilamo‐Ramos, Ronald W. Toseland, Philip McCallion, Yongchao Chen, Jacob Arkin, Yang Zhang, Nicholas Roy and Kunal Garg and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Organic Chemistry, International Journal of Pharmaceutics and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Charles Dawson

19 papers receiving 340 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.

Safe Control With Learned Certificates: A Survey of Neural Lyapunov, Barrier, and Contraction Methods for Robotics and Control

2023 107 citations Charles Dawson, Sicun Gao et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles Dawson United States	11	129	89	61	43	38	21	354
Jun Gao China	11	21 0.2×	36 0.4×	19 0.3×	24 0.6×	37 1.0×	59	352
Peter J. Ashenden Australia	10	68 0.5×	72 0.8×	37 0.6×	40 0.9×	5 0.1×	30	547
Seongsoo Hong South Korea	14	42 0.3×	44 0.5×	32 0.5×	61 1.4×	75 2.0×	47	699
Yang Yihan China	12	234 1.8×	37 0.4×	11 0.2×	10 0.2×	15 0.4×	106	540
Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani United States	10	31 0.2×	82 0.9×	13 0.2×	17 0.4×	11 0.3×	26	317
Adrian P. Lauf United States	11	28 0.2×	112 1.3×	52 0.9×	34 0.8×	7 0.2×	30	486
Wei Su China	10	9 0.1×	59 0.7×	213 3.5×	15 0.3×	13 0.3×	57	405
Yu-Chuan Chen Taiwan	12	39 0.3×	47 0.5×	41 0.7×	5 0.1×	8 0.2×	35	410
Jorge Ropero Spain	11	51 0.4×	55 0.6×	10 0.2×	58 1.3×	36 0.9×	30	422

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Rea, Cristina, et al.. (2025). Active ramp-down control and trajectory design for tokamaks with neural differential equations and reinforcement learning. Communications Physics. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Dawson, Charles, et al.. (2024). Learning-Based Bayesian Inference for Testing of Autonomous Systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(10). 9063–9070.

Chen, Yongchao, Jacob Arkin, Charles Dawson, et al.. (2024). AutoTAMP: Autoregressive Task and Motion Planning with LLMs as Translators and Checkers. 6695–6702. 35 indexed citations

Garg, Kunal, et al.. (2024). Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges. Annual Reviews in Control. 57. 100948–100948. 14 indexed citations

Garg, Kunal, et al.. (2023). Model-Free Neural Fault Detection and Isolation for Safe Control. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 7. 3169–3174. 6 indexed citations

Dawson, Charles, Sicun Gao, & Chuchu Fan. (2023). Safe Control With Learned Certificates: A Survey of Neural Lyapunov, Barrier, and Contraction Methods for Robotics and Control. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 39(3). 1749–1767. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

Dawson, Charles, et al.. (2023). Shield Model Predictive Path Integral: A Computationally Efficient Robust MPC Method Using Control Barrier Functions. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(11). 7106–7113. 10 indexed citations

Dawson, Charles, et al.. (2023). Enforcing safety for vision-based controllers via Control Barrier Functions and Neural Radiance Fields. 10511–10517. 13 indexed citations

Dawson, Charles, et al.. (2022). Learning Safe, Generalizable Perception-Based Hybrid Control With Certificates. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 1904–1911. 30 indexed citations

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Dawson, Charles & Chuchu Fan. (2022). Certifiable Robot Design Optimization using Differentiable Programming. 2 indexed citations

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Chan, Manwei, Charles Dawson, Paula do Vale Pereira, et al.. (2020). Autonomously Deployable Tower Infrastructure for Exploration and Communication in Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions. 7 indexed citations

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Dawson, Charles & D. Philip. (2019). A sensitivity‐based approach to solving the inverse eigenvalue problem for linear structures carrying lumped attachments. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 120(5). 537–566. 3 indexed citations

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Ding, X. X., Bin Gao, Charles Dawson, et al.. (2019). Magnetic properties of double perovskite Ln2CoIrO6 (Ln=Eu, Tb, Ho): Hetero-tri-spin 3d−5d−4f systems. Physical review. B.. 99(1). 20 indexed citations

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Nep, E.I., Mohammed H. Mahdi, Adeola O. Adebisi, et al.. (2017). The influence of hydroalcoholic media on the performance of Grewia polysaccharide in sustained release tablets. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 532(1). 352–364. 15 indexed citations

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Dawson, Charles. (2016). On thinking, dreaming and remembering like a river. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Toseland, Ronald W., et al.. (1999). Use of Health and Human Services by Community-Residing People with Dementia. Social Work. 44(6). 535–548. 56 indexed citations

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Doyle, William, et al.. (1998). Magnetization Reversal at High Speed-An Old Problem in a New Context. 22(3). 91–106. 6 indexed citations

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Dawson, Charles. (1996). Television Advertising: In Need of Reinvention?. International Journal of Advertising. 15(4). 302–313. 2 indexed citations

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Dawson, Charles. (1996). Television Advertising: In Need of Reinvention?. International Journal of Advertising. 15(4). 302–313. 13 indexed citations

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Dawson, Charles, et al.. (1967). The Synthesis of Compounds Structurally Related to Poison Ivy Urushiol. 4,5-Dimethyl-3-pentadecylcatechol. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 32(4). 1084–1088. 11 indexed citations

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