Donald Sofge

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Donald Sofge is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Sofge has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 21 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Donald Sofge's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (15 papers), Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems (12 papers) and Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (10 papers). Donald Sofge is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (15 papers), Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems (12 papers) and Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (10 papers). Donald Sofge collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Donald Sofge's co-authors include David A. White, Michael Otte, William F. Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu, Erion Plaku, Alex Wallar, Alan R. Wagner, Derek A. Paley, Satyandra K. Gupta and Laura M. Hiatt and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, Computers & Geosciences and Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics.

In The Last Decade

Donald Sofge

75 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Handbook of Intelligent Control: Neural, Fuzzy, and Adapt... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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. Handbook of Intelligent Control: Neural, Fuzzy, and Adaptive Approaches
    1992 523 citations Donald Sofge et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald Sofge United States 13 444 383 279 237 234 82 1.2k
Howard M. Schwartz Canada 18 321 0.7× 580 1.5× 151 0.5× 258 1.1× 347 1.5× 129 1.2k
Sándor M. Veres United Kingdom 16 300 0.7× 579 1.5× 138 0.5× 104 0.4× 236 1.0× 165 1.2k
Hui Song China 20 615 1.4× 187 0.5× 493 1.8× 167 0.7× 163 0.7× 86 1.5k
K.N. Krishnanand India 9 546 1.2× 171 0.4× 185 0.7× 216 0.9× 63 0.3× 13 999
Hanna Kurniawati Australia 14 504 1.1× 315 0.8× 88 0.3× 192 0.8× 426 1.8× 38 1.3k
Trey Smith United States 18 424 1.0× 169 0.4× 75 0.3× 160 0.7× 445 1.9× 56 1.3k
Richard J. Duro Spain 18 468 1.1× 182 0.5× 88 0.3× 136 0.6× 111 0.5× 152 1.1k
Huan Zhou China 14 487 1.1× 118 0.3× 198 0.7× 100 0.4× 220 0.9× 73 954
Yunze Cai China 18 412 0.9× 322 0.8× 68 0.2× 327 1.4× 286 1.2× 79 1.7k
Qianhua He China 13 687 1.5× 178 0.5× 98 0.4× 126 0.5× 56 0.2× 97 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Donald Sofge

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Sofge

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Sofge

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Donald Sofge. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Donald Sofge 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 Donald Sofge. Donald Sofge is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sofge, Donald, et al.. (2024). Learning NEAT Emergent Behaviors in Robot Swarms. 414–419.
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Lin, Tony X., Samuel Coogan, Donald Sofge, & Fumin Zhang. (2023). A Particle Fusion Approach for Distributed Filtering and Smoothing. Unmanned Systems. 12(2). 277–291. 1 indexed citations
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Sofge, Donald, et al.. (2023). Wall Climbing Emergent Behavior in a Swarm of Real-World Miniature Autonomous Blimps. 225–232. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Tony X., et al.. (2022). Monocular Vision-Based Localization and Pose Estimation with a Nudged Particle Filter and Ellipsoidal Confidence Tubes. Unmanned Systems. 11(1). 109–120. 2 indexed citations
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Bowman, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Long duration flights in Venus’ atmosphere using passive solar hot air balloons. Acta Astronautica. 191. 160–168. 9 indexed citations
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Lingevitch, Joseph F., et al.. (2021). Distance Estimation Using Self-Induced Noise of an Aerial Vehicle. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(2). 2807–2813. 6 indexed citations
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Otte, Michael, et al.. (2017). Maximizing mutual information for multipass target search in changing environments. 6. 4383–4390. 2 indexed citations
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Lawless, William F. & Donald Sofge. (2016). AI and the Mitigation of Error: A Thermodynamics of Teams. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Mittu, Ranjeev, Gavin Taylor, Donald Sofge, & William F. Lawless. (2016). Introduction to the Symposium on AI and the Mitigation of Human Error. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Mittu, Ranjeev, Donald Sofge, Alan R. Wagner, & William F. Lawless. (2016). Robust Intelligence and Trust in Autonomous Systems. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 54 indexed citations
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Lawless, William F., Ira S. Moskowitz, Ranjeev Mittu, & Donald Sofge. (2015). A Thermodynamics of Teams: Towards a Robust Computational Model of Autonomous Teams.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2 indexed citations
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Lawless, William F. & Donald Sofge. (2013). Trust and Interdependence in Controlling Multi-Agent Multi-Tasking Autonomous Teams. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Bruza, Peter, William F. Lawless, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Donald Sofge, & Dominic Widdows. (2010). Quantum informatics for cognitive, social, and semantic processes : papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium. 2 indexed citations
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Bruza, Peter, Donald Sofge, William F. Lawless, Keith van Rijsbergen, & Matthias Klusch. (2009). Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Interaction. 1 indexed citations
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Bruza, Peter, William F. Lawless, Keith van Rijsbergen, Donald Sofge, & Bob Coecke. (2008). Quantum Interaction: Proceedings of the Second Quantum Interaction Symposium - Qi-2008. 6 indexed citations
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Bruza, Peter, William F. Lawless, Keith van Rijsbergen, & Donald Sofge. (2007). Quantum interaction : Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium : Technical Report SS-07-08. 5 indexed citations
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Perzanowski, Dennis, Derek Brock, Magdalena Bugajska, et al.. (2004). Toward Multimodal Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration.
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Sofge, Donald, et al.. (2003). An Agent Driven Human-centric Interface for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations
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Sofge, Donald. (2002). Using Genetic Algorithm Based Variable Selection to Improve Neural Network Models for Real-World Systems.. 16–19. 20 indexed citations

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