Franck Plestan

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
178 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Franck Plestan is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Franck Plestan has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 36 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 26 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Franck Plestan's work include Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (93 papers), Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (33 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (32 papers). Franck Plestan is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (93 papers), Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (33 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (32 papers). Franck Plestan collaborates with scholars based in France, Mexico and United States. Franck Plestan's co-authors include Gabriel Abba, Yuri Shtessel, Alain Glumineau, Mohammed Taleb, J.W. Grizzle, Salah Laghrouche, Emmanuel Moulay, Vincent Léchappé, Jessy W. Grizzle and E. R. Westervelt and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Franck Plestan

165 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Asymptotically stable walking for biped robots: analysis via systems with impulse effects

2001 720 citations Gabriel Abba, Franck Plestan et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
A novel adaptive-gain supertwisting sliding mode controller: Methodology and application

2012 652 citations Franck Plestan et al. profile →
Higher order sliding mode control based on integral sliding mode

2007 347 citations Franck Plestan et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Franck Plestan France	30	3.6k	1.4k	812	713	636	178	4.9k
S. Drakunov United States	24	2.1k 0.6×	959 0.7×	549 0.7×	297 0.4×	190 0.3×	108	3.2k
S. Ali A. Moosavian Iran	29	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	606 0.7×	826 1.2×	81 0.1×	235	3.0k
Hans Joachim Ferreau Belgium	21	2.5k 0.7×	389 0.3×	377 0.5×	364 0.5×	420 0.7×	39	3.5k
Liang Ding China	35	1.9k 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	562 0.8×	162 0.3×	278	4.2k
Friedrich Pfeiffer Germany	31	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	184 0.3×	76 0.1×	202	3.9k
Bing Xiao China	47	4.7k 1.3×	324 0.2×	1.1k 1.4×	2.0k 2.8×	352 0.6×	199	6.5k
John Hauser United States	27	3.2k 0.9×	471 0.3×	450 0.6×	669 0.9×	98 0.2×	129	3.9k
Ning Sun China	49	5.9k 1.6×	620 0.5×	2.2k 2.7×	544 0.8×	256 0.4×	223	7.0k
Antonio Lorı́a France	32	4.4k 1.2×	343 0.3×	481 0.6×	555 0.8×	745 1.2×	205	5.6k
Masaru Uchiyama Japan	30	2.9k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	882 1.2×	117 0.2×	308	4.2k

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Braud, Caroline, et al.. (2025). Comparison of different feedback controllers on an airfoil benchmark. Wind energy science. 10(1). 177–191. 1 indexed citations

Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear control strategies for a floating wind turbine with PMSG in Region 2: A comparative study based on the OpenFAST platform. Ocean Engineering. 300. 117507–117507. 8 indexed citations

Mojallizadeh, Mohammad Rasool, Félicien Bonnefoy, Vincent Leroy, et al.. (2024). Control design for thrust generators with application to wind turbine wave-tank testing: A sliding-mode control approach with Euler backward time-discretization. Control Engineering Practice. 146. 105894–105894. 7 indexed citations

Braud, Caroline, et al.. (2024). A Novel Lift Controller for a Wind Turbine Blade Section Using an Active Flow Control Device Including Saturations: Experimental Results. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 32(5). 1590–1601. 2 indexed citations

Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear Control of a Grid-Connected Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Operated in Region II: A Comparative Analysis. 1–8.

Marx, Swann, et al.. (2023). Active disturbance rejection control for a transport equation via a differentiatior. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 4533–4538. 1 indexed citations

Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2023). Model-free based control of a gripper actuated by pneumatic muscles. Mechatronics. 95. 103053–103053. 9 indexed citations

Mojallizadeh, Mohammad Rasool, Bernard Brogliato, Andrey Polyakov, et al.. (2023). A survey on the discrete-time differentiators in closed-loop control systems: Experiments on an electro-pneumatic system. Control Engineering Practice. 136. 105546–105546. 15 indexed citations

Deng, Yang, Vincent Léchappé, Emmanuel Moulay, et al.. (2022). Predictor-based control of time-delay systems: a survey. International Journal of Systems Science. 53(12). 2496–2534. 37 indexed citations

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Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2021). Adaptive sliding mode control of floating offshore wind turbine equipped by permanent magnet synchronous generator. Wind Energy. 24(7). 754–769. 30 indexed citations

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Moulay, Emmanuel, Vincent Léchappé, Emmanuel Bernuau, & Franck Plestan. (2021). Robust Fixed-Time Stability: Application to Sliding-Mode Control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 67(2). 1061–1066. 144 indexed citations

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Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2021). Control Strategies for a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot with Varying Payload Information. Mechatronics. 79. 102648–102648. 16 indexed citations

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Ghanes, Malek, et al.. (2021). An Experimental Investigation of Discretized Homogeneous Differentiators: Pneumatic Actuator Case. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. 2(3). 227–236. 12 indexed citations

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Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2021). Individual/collective blade pitch control of floating wind turbine based on adaptive second order sliding mode. Ocean Engineering. 228. 108897–108897. 39 indexed citations

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Chalanga, Asif & Franck Plestan. (2020). High-Order Sliding-Mode Control With Predefined Convergence Time for Electropneumatic Actuator. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 29(2). 910–917. 26 indexed citations

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Moulay, Emmanuel, Vincent Léchappé, & Franck Plestan. (2019). Properties of the sign gradient descent algorithms. Information Sciences. 492. 29–39. 16 indexed citations

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Deng, Yang, Vincent Léchappé, Emmanuel Moulay, & Franck Plestan. (2019). State feedback control and delay estimation for LTI system with unknown input-delay. International Journal of Control. 94(9). 2369–2378. 13 indexed citations

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Deng, Yang, et al.. (2019). Super-Twisting Algorithm-Based Time-Varying Delay Estimation With External Signal. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 67(12). 10663–10671. 11 indexed citations

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Plestan, Franck, et al.. (2014). An adaptive solution for robust control based on integral high‐order sliding mode concept. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 25(8). 1201–1213. 66 indexed citations

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Chevallereau, Christine, Gabriel Abba, Yannick Aoustin, et al.. (2003). RABBIT: a testbed for advanced control theory. IEEE Control Systems. 23(5). 57–79. 360 indexed citations

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