Ke Sun

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ke Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ke Sun has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 7 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ke Sun's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (7 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (6 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Ke Sun is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (7 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (6 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Ke Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Ke Sun's co-authors include Michael Watterson, Sikang Liu, Kartik Mohta, Vijay Kumar, Yash Mulgaonkar, Camillo J. Taylor, Bernd Pfrommer, Camillo J. Taylor, Subhrajit Bhattacharya and Vijay Kumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ke Sun

10 papers receiving 972 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.

Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight

2018 386 citations Ke Sun, Kartik Mohta et al. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters profile →
Planning Dynamically Feasible Trajectories for Quadrotors Using Safe Flight Corridors in 3-D Complex Environments

2017 355 citations Sikang Liu, Michael Watterson et al. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ke Sun United States	7	760	703	179	153	137	11	1.0k
Michael Watterson United States	11	886 1.2×	804 1.1×	210 1.2×	163 1.1×	144 1.1×	13	1.1k
Felix Ruess Germany	5	555 0.7×	465 0.7×	172 1.0×	104 0.7×	50 0.4×	6	792
Brett T. Lopez United States	10	371 0.5×	338 0.5×	249 1.4×	42 0.3×	76 0.6×	25	667
Vadim Indelman Israel	19	1.1k 1.4×	785 1.1×	107 0.6×	318 2.1×	106 0.8×	78	1.4k
C. Pégard France	14	357 0.5×	299 0.4×	309 1.7×	51 0.3×	24 0.2×	34	664
Héctor H. González-Baños United States	11	559 0.7×	647 0.9×	100 0.6×	68 0.4×	29 0.2×	16	882
Christian Schlegel Germany	11	250 0.3×	285 0.4×	131 0.7×	95 0.6×	24 0.2×	42	625
Shrihari Vasudevan Australia	11	350 0.5×	316 0.4×	96 0.5×	32 0.2×	50 0.4×	39	706
Giorgio Buttazzo Italy	11	393 0.5×	286 0.4×	59 0.3×	103 0.7×	21 0.2×	22	901
Xiaojia Xiang China	12	415 0.5×	388 0.6×	104 0.6×	59 0.4×	8 0.1×	58	739

Countries citing papers authored by Ke Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ke Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ke Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ke Sun. The network helps show where Ke Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ke Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ke Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ke Sun 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 Ke Sun. Ke Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

1.

Sun, Ke & Vijay Kumar. (2021). Belief Space Planning for Mobile Robots With Range Sensors Using iLQG. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(2). 1902–1909. 4 indexed citations

2.

Watterson, Michael, Sikang Liu, Ke Sun, Trey Smith, & Vijay Kumar. (2020). Trajectory optimization on manifolds with applications to quadrotor systems. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 39(2-3). 303–320. 24 indexed citations

3.

Sun, Ke, et al.. (2020). Feedback Enhanced Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles. 1001. 2126–2133. 4 indexed citations

4.

Sun, Ke, et al.. (2019). Multi-objective bi-level photovoltaic access planning based on copula theory and included angle cosine method. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 227. 32016–32016.

5.

Watterson, Michael, Sikang Liu, Ke Sun, Trey Smith, & Vijay Kumar. (2018). Trajectory Optimization On Manifolds with Applications to SO(3) and R3XS2. 10 indexed citations

6.

Sun, Ke, Kartik Mohta, Bernd Pfrommer, et al.. (2018). Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(2). 965–972. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Mohta, Kartik, Ke Sun, Sikang Liu, et al.. (2018). Experiments in Fast, Autonomous, GPS-Denied Quadrotor Flight. 7832–7839. 32 indexed citations

8.

Liu, Sikang, Michael Watterson, Kartik Mohta, et al.. (2017). Planning Dynamically Feasible Trajectories for Quadrotors Using Safe Flight Corridors in 3-D Complex Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2(3). 1688–1695. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Mohta, Kartik, Michael Watterson, Yash Mulgaonkar, et al.. (2017). Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments. Journal of Field Robotics. 35(1). 101–120. 136 indexed citations

10.

Tao, Weiyang, Bohui Li, Shuo Gao, et al.. (2015). CancerHSP: anticancer herbs database of systems pharmacology. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11481–11481. 46 indexed citations

11.

Sun, Ke, et al.. (2013). A low-cost and robust optical flow CMOS camera for velocity estimation. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 81. 1181–1186. 4 indexed citations

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