Eric Schmitz

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Eric Schmitz is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Schmitz has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 5 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 4 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Eric Schmitz's work include Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (8 papers), Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control (3 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (3 papers). Eric Schmitz is often cited by papers focused on Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (8 papers), Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control (3 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (3 papers). Eric Schmitz collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Eric Schmitz's co-authors include Robert H. Cannon, Noémie Elhadad, Connie Liu, David K. Vawdrey, Jamie S. Hirsch, Andreas H. von Flotow, R. Doraiswami, Kenneth Richards, C. Padilla Aranda and A. von Flotow and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics.

In The Last Decade

Eric Schmitz

12 papers receiving 964 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.

Initial Experiments on the End-Point Control of a Flexible One-Link Robot

1984 881 citations Robert H. Cannon, Eric Schmitz The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Schmitz United States	5	895	288	159	92	80	12	1.0k
Dieter Bestle Germany	15	822 0.9×	348 1.2×	231 1.5×	42 0.5×	184 2.3×	73	1.2k
R. Schwertassek Germany	11	844 0.9×	366 1.3×	236 1.5×	99 1.1×	111 1.4×	26	1.1k
Henry Hong Canada	12	787 0.9×	155 0.5×	65 0.4×	46 0.5×	125 1.6×	42	989
Dongya Zhao China	18	965 1.1×	247 0.9×	35 0.2×	89 1.0×	92 1.1×	81	1.2k
Marco Münchhof Germany	4	350 0.4×	159 0.6×	61 0.4×	46 0.5×	51 0.6×	11	606
A. Nikoobin Iran	15	579 0.6×	163 0.6×	47 0.3×	175 1.9×	91 1.1×	44	711
Pavel Zı́tek Czechia	16	730 0.8×	99 0.3×	57 0.4×	35 0.4×	73 0.9×	82	1.1k
Izhak Bar‐Kana United States	12	812 0.9×	80 0.3×	73 0.5×	56 0.6×	118 1.5×	26	965
Daniele Casagrande Italy	15	370 0.4×	66 0.2×	129 0.8×	36 0.4×	46 0.6×	89	611

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Hirsch, Jamie S., et al.. (2014). HARVEST, a longitudinal patient record summarizer. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 22(2). 263–274. 81 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Eric. (2003). Modeling and control of a planar manipulator with an elastic forearm. 894–899. 4 indexed citations

3.

Doraiswami, R. & Eric Schmitz. (1998). Status monitoring in flexible manipulators. IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications. 145(6). 537–550. 3 indexed citations

4.

Schmitz, Eric, et al.. (1997). Integration of GPS into a ballistic missile navigation solution. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. 1 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Eric, et al.. (1994). <title>Integrated active and passive control design methodology for the NASA LaRC CSI evolutionary model</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2193. 6–23. 2 indexed citations

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Richards, Kenneth, et al.. (1994). Integrated active and passive control design methodology for the LaRC CSI evolutionary model. 3 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Eric, et al.. (1992). <title>Initial experiments on the end-point control of a 2-DOF long-reach elastic manipulator</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1612. 245–256. 2 indexed citations

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Flotow, Andreas H. von, et al.. (1992). Design, manufacture, and application to space robotics of distributed piezoelectric film sensors. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 15(2). 396–403. 24 indexed citations

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Aranda, C. Padilla, et al.. (1990). Design, manufacture, and application to space robotics of distributed piezoelectric film sensors. 3 indexed citations

10.

Schmitz, Eric. (1986). Dynamics and control of a planar manipulator with elastic links. 1135–1139. 12 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H. & Eric Schmitz. (1984). Initial Experiments on the End-Point Control of a Flexible One-Link Robot. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 3(3). 62–75. 881 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmitz, Eric & Robert H. Cannon. (1980). Control of a flexible robot arm. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 3 indexed citations

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