Ella Atkins

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
244 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Ella Atkins is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ella Atkins has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 72 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 48 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ella Atkins's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (63 papers), Air Traffic Management and Optimization (48 papers) and Aerospace and Aviation Technology (34 papers). Ella Atkins is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (63 papers), Air Traffic Management and Optimization (48 papers) and Aerospace and Aviation Technology (34 papers). Ella Atkins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Brazil. Ella Atkins's co-authors include Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, Wei Ren, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Kang G. Shin, Justin Bradley, Yu Yao, Ehsan Taheri, Hossein Rastgoftar and Zhaojian Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Sensors and AIAA Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ella Atkins

231 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

  1. Information consensus in multivehicle cooperative control
    2007 2.4k citations Ella Atkins et al. profile →
  2. Distributed multi‐vehicle coordinated controlvialocal information exchange
    2006 1.2k citations Ella Atkins et al. profile →
  3. A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination
    2005 1.0k citations Ella Atkins et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ella Atkins 4.9k 2.4k 1.8k 804 686 244 7.7k
Zhiyun Lin 4.7k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 519 0.6× 1.2k 1.7× 213 6.1k
Sonia Martı́nez 6.5k 1.3× 2.8k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 1.0k 1.3× 1.5k 2.2× 192 8.9k
Dušan M. Stipanović 2.9k 0.6× 2.4k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 364 0.5× 157 5.0k
Hao Liu 2.6k 0.5× 3.0k 1.3× 1.3k 0.7× 581 0.7× 521 0.8× 265 5.8k
Yingmin Jia 6.6k 1.4× 5.8k 2.4× 1.5k 0.8× 401 0.5× 1.1k 1.5× 439 10.4k
Jeff S. Shamma 2.1k 0.4× 4.8k 2.0× 1.3k 0.7× 334 0.4× 946 1.4× 201 8.7k
Yongcan Cao 8.1k 1.7× 4.1k 1.7× 1.3k 0.7× 569 0.7× 874 1.3× 127 9.5k
Barış Fi̇dan 3.5k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 637 0.8× 2.7k 3.9× 200 7.2k
Zongyu Zuo 5.3k 1.1× 7.6k 3.2× 2.3k 1.3× 597 0.7× 781 1.1× 191 10.3k
Zhihua Qu 2.9k 0.6× 5.5k 2.3× 806 0.4× 557 0.7× 2.4k 3.4× 351 8.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ella Atkins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ella Atkins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ella Atkins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ella Atkins 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 Ella Atkins. Ella Atkins 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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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (2025). Multi-Mode Flight Simulation and Energy-Aware Coverage Path Planning for a Lift+Cruise QuadPlane. Drones. 9(4). 287–287. 2 indexed citations
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Stirling, Leia, et al.. (2025). Orbital Dynamic Effects on Fuel Use in Sampling-Based Plans for Proximity Operations. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 62(3). 1018–1029.
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Francis, Michael, et al.. (2025). The Anatomy of Autonomy. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. eBooks.
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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (2024). A V2V Approach to Assured Aircraft Emergency Road Landings. 3138–3145. 1 indexed citations
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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (2023). Can a Laplace PDE Define Air Corridors through Low-Altitude Airspace?. 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Ghaffari, Maani, et al.. (2023). Fast and Noise-Resilient Magnetic Field Mapping on a Low-Cost UAV Using Gaussian Process Regression. Sensors. 23(8). 3897–3897. 3 indexed citations
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Yao, Yu, Ella Atkins, Matthew Johnson‐Roberson, Ram Vasudevan, & Xiaoxiao Du. (2021). BiTraP: Bi-Directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction With Multi-Modal Goal Estimation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(2). 1463–1470. 123 indexed citations
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Rastgoftar, Hossein & Ella Atkins. (2021). A Mass-Conservation Model for Stability Analysis and Finite-Time Estimation of Spread of COVID-19. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 8(4). 930–937. 3 indexed citations
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Rastgoftar, Hossein, Ella Atkins, & Dimitra Panagou. (2018). Safe Multiquadcopter System Continuum Deformation Over Moving Frames. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 6(2). 737–749. 6 indexed citations
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Nasir, Ali, Ella Atkins, & Ilya Kolmanovsky. (2017). Robust Science-Optimal Spacecraft Control for Circular Orbit Missions. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 50(3). 923–934. 13 indexed citations
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Rastgoftar, Hossein, et al.. (2017). Specification and evaluation of geofence boundary violation detection algorithms. 1588–1596. 18 indexed citations
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Taheri, Ehsan, Ilya Kolmanovsky, & Ella Atkins. (2016). Enhanced Smoothing Technique for Indirect Optimization of Minimum-Fuel Low-Thrust Trajectories. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 39(11). 2500–2511. 103 indexed citations
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Ersal, Tulga, Tianyou Guo, Anna G. Stefanopoulou, et al.. (2014). Keeping Ground Robots on the Move Through Battery & Mission Management. Mechanical Engineering. 136(6). S1–S6. 3 indexed citations
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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (2006). A Collaborative Model for Astronaut-Rover Exploration Teams.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 52–58. 5 indexed citations
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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (2004). Making Decisions about Motion.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 31–38.
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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (2001). The practice characterization model: the importance of organizational life cycles and targeted interventions in general medical practice. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 16(2). 125–138. 2 indexed citations
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Atkins, Ella, et al.. (1997). Development of iterative real-time scheduler to planner feedback. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2. 1267–1272. 11 indexed citations
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Atkins, Ella, Edmund H. Durfee, & Kang G. Shin. (1997). Detecting and reacting to unplanned-for world states. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 571–576. 19 indexed citations
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Atkins, Ella, Edmund H. Durfee, & Kang G. Shin. (1996). Expecting the unexpected: detecting and reacting to unplanned-for world states. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1377–1377. 2 indexed citations
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Davis, Deborah A., et al.. (1992). Design, analysis, and testing of the Phase 1 CSI Evolutionary Model erectable truss. STIN. 92. 32100. 4 indexed citations

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