Ivana Palunko

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ivana Palunko is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivana Palunko has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 15 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ivana Palunko's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (14 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (10 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (8 papers). Ivana Palunko is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (14 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (10 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (8 papers). Ivana Palunko collaborates with scholars based in Croatia, United States and Netherlands. Ivana Palunko's co-authors include Rafael Fierro, Patricio J. Cruz, Domagoj Tolić, Tim de Bruin, Lucian Buşoniu, Jens Kober, Lydia Tapia, Aleksandra Faust, Stjepan Bogdan and Frank L. Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Artificial Intelligence and Journal of the Franklin Institute.

In The Last Decade

Ivana Palunko

30 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Reinforcement learning for control: Performance, stabilit... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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. Reinforcement learning for control: Performance, stability, and deep approximators
    2018 312 citations Domagoj Tolić, Ivana Palunko 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
Ivana Palunko Croatia 11 821 402 388 299 180 34 1.3k
Sergio Salazar Mexico 20 955 1.2× 552 1.4× 283 0.7× 333 1.1× 113 0.6× 109 1.4k
Patricio J. Cruz Ecuador 14 724 0.9× 420 1.0× 443 1.1× 335 1.1× 93 0.5× 42 1.1k
Zhiqiang Pu China 20 1.1k 1.3× 396 1.0× 150 0.4× 353 1.2× 246 1.4× 100 1.6k
Zhiqiang Miao China 23 1.1k 1.3× 447 1.1× 671 1.7× 652 2.2× 143 0.8× 110 1.8k
Fendy Santoso Australia 21 584 0.7× 379 0.9× 283 0.7× 254 0.8× 251 1.4× 60 1.0k
Luis Rodolfo García Carrillo United States 21 593 0.7× 692 1.7× 559 1.4× 346 1.2× 141 0.8× 86 1.3k
Mohd Ariffanan Mohd Basri Malaysia 19 798 1.0× 280 0.7× 236 0.6× 228 0.8× 98 0.5× 68 1.0k
Abbas Chamseddine France 17 965 1.2× 323 0.8× 215 0.6× 206 0.7× 150 0.8× 37 1.3k
Sergei Lupashin Switzerland 15 586 0.7× 636 1.6× 578 1.5× 221 0.7× 116 0.6× 19 1.2k
Ziyang Zhen China 21 796 1.0× 989 2.5× 519 1.3× 552 1.8× 234 1.3× 110 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ivana Palunko

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ivana Palunko

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivana Palunko

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ivana Palunko. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ivana Palunko 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 Ivana Palunko. Ivana Palunko 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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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2024). Entanglement Definitions for Tethered Robots: Exploration and Analysis. IEEE Access. 12. 178153–178170. 1 indexed citations
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Tolić, Domagoj, et al.. (2024). Application of Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman Equation/Pontryagin’s Principle for Constrained Optimal Control. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 200(2). 437–462. 2 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2024). A Dataset for Detection and Segmentation of Underwater Marine Debris in Shallow Waters. Scientific Data. 11(1). 921–921. 2 indexed citations
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Tolić, Domagoj, et al.. (2022). Numerically efficient H∞ analysis of cooperative multi-agent systems. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 359(16). 9110–9128.
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2022). Recovering the 3D UUV Position using UAV Imagery in Shallow-Water Environments. arXiv (Cornell University). 948–954. 1 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2021). Extended Kalman filter for payload state estimation utilizing aircraft inertial sensing. 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2020). State and parameter estimation of suspended load using quadrotor onboard sensors. 61. 958–967. 7 indexed citations
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Orsag, Matko, Domagoj Tolić, Antun Ivanović, et al.. (2016). Human-in-the-loop control of multi-agent aerial systems. 18. 2139–2145. 12 indexed citations
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Tolić, Domagoj & Ivana Palunko. (2016). Intermittent information in Networked Control Systems. 405. 269–274.
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Tolić, Domagoj, Ivana Palunko, Antun Ivanović, Marko Car, & Stjepan Bogdan. (2015). Multi-agent control in degraded communication environments. 31. 404–409. 3 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2014). Trust‐based self‐organising network control. IET Control Theory and Applications. 8(18). 2126–2135. 13 indexed citations
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Faust, Aleksandra, Ivana Palunko, Patricio J. Cruz, Rafael Fierro, & Lydia Tapia. (2014). Automated aerial suspended cargo delivery through reinforcement learning. Artificial Intelligence. 247. 381–398. 132 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2014). Cooperative suspended object manipulation using reinforcement learning and energy-based control. mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich). 885–891. 12 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, et al.. (2014). Decentralized trust-based self-organizing cooperative control. 1205–1210. 7 indexed citations
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Faust, Aleksandra, Ivana Palunko, Patricio J. Cruz, Rafael Fierro, & Lydia Tapia. (2013). Learning swing-free trajectories for UAVs with a suspended load. 4902–4909. 104 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, Aleksandra Faust, Patricio J. Cruz, Lydia Tapia, & Rafael Fierro. (2013). A reinforcement learning approach towards autonomous suspended load manipulation using aerial robots. 4896–4901. 63 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, Patricio J. Cruz, & Rafael Fierro. (2012). Agile Load Transportation : Safe and Efficient Load Manipulation with Aerial Robots. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 19(3). 69–79. 225 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana, Rafael Fierro, & Patricio J. Cruz. (2012). Trajectory generation for swing-free maneuvers of a quadrotor with suspended payload: A dynamic programming approach. 2691–2697. 196 indexed citations
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Griffin, Brian P., Rafael Fierro, & Ivana Palunko. (2011). An autonomous communications relay in GPS-denied environments via antenna diversity. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation Applications Methodology Technology. 9(1). 33–44. 11 indexed citations
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Palunko, Ivana & Rafael Fierro. (2011). Adaptive Control of a Quadrotor with Dynamic Changes in the Center of Gravity. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 44(1). 2626–2631. 106 indexed citations

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