Kevin A. Wise

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Kevin A. Wise is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin A. Wise has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 50 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Kevin A. Wise's work include Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (39 papers), Guidance and Control Systems (37 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (20 papers). Kevin A. Wise is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (39 papers), Guidance and Control Systems (37 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (20 papers). Kevin A. Wise collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Kevin A. Wise's co-authors include Eugene Lavretsky, Joseph Brinker, Naira Hovakimyan, Chengyu Cao, Vijay Patel, Manu Sharma, Dale Enns, Dapeng Li, Michael Elgersma and Petros G. Voulgaris and has published in prestigious journals such as SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics and International Journal of Control.

In The Last Decade

Kevin A. Wise

73 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Robust and Adaptive Control 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2012 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. Robust and Adaptive Control
    2012 347 citations Eugene Lavretsky, Kevin A. Wise profile →
  2. Robust and Adaptive Control: With Aerospace Applications
    2012 319 citations Eugene Lavretsky, Kevin A. Wise CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kevin A. Wise United States 21 1.6k 882 160 127 112 79 2.0k
William MacKunis United States 17 1.1k 0.7× 518 0.6× 79 0.5× 128 1.0× 150 1.3× 91 1.5k
Itzhak Barkana United States 22 1.4k 0.8× 463 0.5× 59 0.4× 127 1.0× 64 0.6× 82 1.7k
William L. Garrard United States 22 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 104 0.7× 58 0.5× 125 1.1× 99 2.2k
Jun Zhou China 17 840 0.5× 671 0.8× 74 0.5× 94 0.7× 78 0.7× 142 1.2k
Jean‐Baptiste Pomet France 17 2.0k 1.2× 269 0.3× 76 0.5× 197 1.6× 94 0.8× 59 2.2k
J. V. R. Prasad United States 21 866 0.5× 1.0k 1.2× 143 0.9× 85 0.7× 80 0.7× 170 1.7k
Changhong Wang China 18 1.2k 0.7× 464 0.5× 86 0.5× 281 2.2× 204 1.8× 90 1.6k
James Richard Forbes Canada 21 994 0.6× 677 0.8× 194 1.2× 110 0.9× 50 0.4× 166 1.6k
Sung Kyung Hong South Korea 22 846 0.5× 556 0.6× 194 1.2× 243 1.9× 59 0.5× 77 1.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lavretsky, Eugene & Kevin A. Wise. (2024). Bode’s Integral Theorem and Flight Control.
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Lavretsky, Eugene & Kevin A. Wise. (2024). Robust and Adaptive Control. 9 indexed citations
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Lavretsky, Eugene & Kevin A. Wise. (2012). Robust and Adaptive Control: With Aerospace Applications. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 319 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wise, Kevin A. & Eugene Lavretsky. (2011). Robust and Adaptive Control of X-45A J-UCAS: A Design Trade Study. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 44(1). 6555–6560. 8 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., Eugene Lavretsky, Naira Hovakimyan, Chengyu Cao, & Jiang Wang. (2008). Verifiable Adaptive Flight Control: UCAV and Aerial Refueling. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit. 33(5). 2008–6658. 9 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., Eugene Lavretsky, & Naira Hovakimyan. (2006). Adaptive control of flight: theory, applications, and open problems. 6 pp.–6 pp.. 76 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A.. (2006). Flight Testing of the X-45A J-UCAS Computational Alpha-Beta System. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. 21 indexed citations
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Sharma, Manu, Eugene Lavretsky, & Kevin A. Wise. (2006). Application and Flight Testing of an Adaptive Autopilot on Precision Guided Munitions. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. 37 indexed citations
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Brinker, Joseph & Kevin A. Wise. (2001). Flight Testing of Reconfigurable Control Law on the X-36 Tailless Aircraft. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 24(5). 903–909. 105 indexed citations
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Brinker, Joseph & Kevin A. Wise. (1999). Nonlinear simulation analysis of a tailless advanced fighter aircraft reconfigurable flight control law. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. 18 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., et al.. (1998). Agile Missile Dynamics and Control. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 21(3). 441–449. 102 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., et al.. (1998). Stability analysis of reconfigurable and gain scheduled flight control systems using LMIs. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. 8 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., et al.. (1997). Nonlinear control of agile missiles using state dependent Riccati equations. 379–380 vol.1. 8 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., et al.. (1996). Nonlinear H-infinity optimal control for agile missiles. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 19(1). 157–165. 20 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., et al.. (1994). Missile Autopilot Design Using Nonlinear H ∞ Optimal Control. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 27(13). 133–139. 3 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A., et al.. (1992). Linear and nonlinear aircraft flight control for the AIAA Controls Design Challenge. Astrodynamics Conference. 5 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A.. (1991). Missile autopilot robustness to uncertain aerodynamics - Stability hypersphere radius calculation. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 14(1). 166–175. 5 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A.. (1990). Bank-to-turn missile autopilot design using loop transfer recovery. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 13(1). 145–152. 44 indexed citations
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Wise, Kevin A.. (1989). Singular value robustness tests for missile autopilot uncertainties. Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference. 7 indexed citations

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