Hyoung Il Son

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Hyoung Il Son is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Plant Science and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hyoung Il Son has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 30 papers in Plant Science and 21 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hyoung Il Son's work include Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (36 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (25 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (15 papers). Hyoung Il Son is often cited by papers focused on Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (36 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (25 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (15 papers). Hyoung Il Son collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Germany and United States. Hyoung Il Son's co-authors include Chanyoung Ju, Jeongeun Kim, HH Bülthoff, Antonio Franchi, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Jaehwi Seol, Cristian Secchi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Dongjun Lee and Changsu Ha and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Small and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Hyoung Il Son

93 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Agriculture: A Review of Pers... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Agriculture: A Review of Perspective of Platform, Control, and Applications
    2019 382 citations Jeongeun Kim, Chanyoung Ju et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hyoung Il Son South Korea 23 746 554 552 443 397 97 2.0k
António Paulo Moreira Portugal 29 498 0.7× 404 0.7× 772 1.4× 811 1.8× 546 1.4× 183 2.8k
Antonio Barrientos Spain 28 469 0.6× 305 0.6× 553 1.0× 917 2.1× 1.1k 2.8× 189 3.1k
Jordi Palacín Spain 26 271 0.4× 683 1.2× 295 0.5× 482 1.1× 273 0.7× 101 2.2k
Jang-Myung Lee South Korea 20 481 0.6× 128 0.2× 1.3k 2.4× 428 1.0× 442 1.1× 233 2.7k
George Kantor United States 27 271 0.4× 593 1.1× 686 1.2× 819 1.8× 831 2.1× 110 2.5k
Jayantha Katupitiya Australia 22 305 0.4× 310 0.6× 724 1.3× 354 0.8× 416 1.0× 140 1.7k
P. González de Santos Spain 31 812 1.1× 706 1.3× 1.0k 1.8× 419 0.9× 401 1.0× 124 3.1k
Jaime del Cerro Spain 21 228 0.3× 401 0.7× 317 0.6× 647 1.5× 676 1.7× 84 1.9k
Marcello Chiaberge Italy 23 298 0.4× 318 0.6× 274 0.5× 487 1.1× 392 1.0× 103 2.5k
Giulio Reina Italy 28 502 0.7× 667 1.2× 462 0.8× 463 1.0× 596 1.5× 139 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Hyoung Il Son

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hyoung Il Son

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hyoung Il Son

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hyoung Il Son. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hyoung Il Son 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 Hyoung Il Son. Hyoung Il Son 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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Son, Hyoung Il, et al.. (2025). 3D LiDAR-Based Semantic SLAM for Intelligent Irrigation Using UAV. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 7495–7508. 1 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung, et al.. (2024). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based Autonomous Tracking System for Invasive Flying Insects. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 227. 109616–109616. 1 indexed citations
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Son, Hyoung Il, et al.. (2024). Fast and stable pedicel detection for robust visual servoing to harvest shaking fruits. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 220. 108863–108863. 5 indexed citations
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Seol, Jaehwi, et al.. (2024). Human-Centered Robotic System for Agricultural Applications: Design, Development, and Field Evaluation. Agriculture. 14(11). 1985–1985. 1 indexed citations
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Cho, Yong Jin, et al.. (2024). Autonomous Self-Propelled Napa Cabbage Harvester: Cutting, Attitude Control, and Loading Modules. Agriculture. 14(11). 1869–1869.
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Seol, Jaehwi, et al.. (2024). Development of Tributary Mapping System Using Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles With LiDAR. IEEE Access. 13. 4081–4097.
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Seol, Jaehwi, et al.. (2023). Human-centered approach for an efficient cucumber harvesting robot system: Harvest ordering, visual servoing, and end-effector. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 212. 108116–108116. 27 indexed citations
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Seol, Jaehwi, Chanyoung Ju, & Hyoung Il Son. (2023). Leader–follower control of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle based on supervisory control theory for a broad tributary area mapping scenario. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. 237(10). 1765–1776. 4 indexed citations
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Kim, Jeongeun, et al.. (2022). Field Evaluation of Path-Planning Algorithms for Autonomous Mobile Robot in Smart Farms. IEEE Access. 10. 60253–60266. 55 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung & Hyoung Il Son. (2022). Investigation of an Autonomous Tracking System for Localization of Radio-Tagged Flying Insects. IEEE Access. 10. 4048–4062. 17 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung, et al.. (2022). Field evaluation of UAV‐based tracking method for localization of small insects. Entomological Research. 52(3). 135–147. 9 indexed citations
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Son, Hyoung Il, et al.. (2022). Novel attitude control of Korean cabbage harvester using backstepping control. Precision Agriculture. 24(2). 744–763. 7 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung & Hyoung Il Son. (2021). A Hybrid Systems-Based Hierarchical Control Architecture for Heterogeneous Field Robot Teams. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 53(3). 1802–1815. 20 indexed citations
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Kim, Jeongeun & Hyoung Il Son. (2020). A Voronoi Diagram-Based Workspace Partition for Weak Cooperation of Multi-Robot System in Orchard. IEEE Access. 8. 20676–20686. 42 indexed citations
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Seol, Jaehwi & Hyoung Il Son. (2020). Bargaining Model-Based Coverage Area Subdivision of Multiple UAVs in Remote Sensing. Journal of Biosystems Engineering. 45(3). 133–144. 1 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung & Hyoung Il Son. (2019). A distributed swarm control for an agricultural multiple unmanned aerial vehicle system. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. 233(10). 1298–1308. 26 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung, et al.. (2019). A Tracking Method for the Invasive Asian Hornet: A Brief Review and Experiments. IEEE Access. 7. 176998–177008. 17 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung & Hyoung Il Son. (2018). Multiple UAV Systems for Agricultural Applications: Control, Implementation, and Evaluation. Electronics. 7(9). 162–162. 137 indexed citations
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Ju, Chanyoung & Hyoung Il Son. (2018). Discrete Event Systems based Modeling for Agricultural Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Automata Theory Approach. International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems. 10 indexed citations
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Son, Hyoung Il, Ayoung Hong, HH Bülthoff, & Dongjun Lee. (2012). Effects of imperfect communication network on haptic teleoperator's performance. Max Planck Digital Library. 1772–1777. 1 indexed citations

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