Laura Ray

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Laura Ray is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Ray has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 22 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 15 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Laura Ray's work include Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics (16 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (14 papers) and Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems (13 papers). Laura Ray is often cited by papers focused on Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics (16 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (14 papers) and Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems (13 papers). Laura Ray collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Laura Ray's co-authors include Robert F. Stengel, J. H. Lever, Lei Tian, Ashok Ramasubramanian, Bong-Hwan Koh, David A. Cartes, Eric M. Trautmann, Teresa A. Simon, Jerald D. Kralik and Christopher I. Marrison and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Laura Ray

101 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Nonlinear Tire Force Estimation and Road Friction Identif... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 100 200 300 400
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. Nonlinear Tire Force Estimation and Road Friction Identification: Simulation and Experiments ,
    1997 401 citations Laura Ray profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Ray United States 22 844 819 746 619 182 106 2.1k
Paramsothy Jayakumar United States 25 638 0.8× 578 0.7× 556 0.7× 642 1.0× 146 0.8× 163 2.0k
Donald L. Margolis United States 19 647 0.8× 555 0.7× 793 1.1× 865 1.4× 190 1.0× 102 2.0k
Dan Negruţ United States 28 539 0.6× 348 0.4× 513 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 176 1.0× 172 2.2k
Werner Schiehlen Germany 33 969 1.1× 623 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 2.3k 3.8× 445 2.4× 166 3.9k
Mark Lowenberg United Kingdom 23 308 0.4× 559 0.7× 579 0.8× 830 1.3× 124 0.7× 231 2.5k
Ichiro Hagiwara Japan 21 1.1k 1.3× 188 0.2× 588 0.8× 168 0.3× 392 2.2× 333 2.2k
Peter Eberhard Germany 31 1.3k 1.6× 364 0.4× 1.8k 2.4× 2.2k 3.6× 533 2.9× 331 4.7k
Alfredo Cigada Italy 27 1.1k 1.3× 140 0.2× 526 0.7× 266 0.4× 257 1.4× 151 2.2k
Semyung Wang South Korea 24 967 1.1× 135 0.2× 366 0.5× 283 0.5× 665 3.7× 136 2.1k
Bahram Ravani United States 33 217 0.3× 225 0.3× 968 1.3× 1.6k 2.7× 569 3.1× 201 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Ray

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Ray

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Ray

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laura Ray. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laura Ray 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 Laura Ray. Laura Ray 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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Gronewold, Andrew D., et al.. (2025). Tactile Sensing & Visually-Impaired Navigation in Densely Planted Row Crops, for Precision Fertilization by Small UGVs. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 231. 110003–110003. 3 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2022). Clustertracker: An Efficiency-Focused Multiple Object Tracking Method. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Kobylarz, Erik J., et al.. (2021). Assessing the feasibility of detecting epileptic seizures using non-cerebral sensor data. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 130. 104232–104232. 8 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2019). Multi-Class Crevasse Detection Using Ground Penetrating Radar and Feature-Based Machine Learning. 3578–3581. 10 indexed citations
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Kralik, Jerald D., et al.. (2016). From low to high cognition: A multi-level model of behavioral control in the primate brain.. Cognitive Science. 4 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2012). Tuning principal component weights to individualize HRTFs. 389–392. 13 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2010). An Extension of Bayesian Game Approximation to Partially Observable Stochastic Games with Competition and Cooperation.. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 563–569. 2 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2009). Evaluation of terrain parameter estimation using a stochastic terrain model. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7332. 73321F–73321F.
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Murphy, John P., et al.. (2007). Issues in computational resource allocation in cooperative control. 50. 2 indexed citations
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Lever, J. H. & Laura Ray. (2007). Revised solar-power budget for Cool Robot polar science campaigns. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 52(2). 177–190. 16 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2006). The Design of a Mobile Robot for Instrument Network Deployment in Antarctica. 2111–2116. 18 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2006). Smart Electromagnetic Sensors for Damage Identification. Aerospace. 63–71.
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2003). Enhancement of Damage Identification Through Structural Matrix Assignment. AIAA Journal. 41(12). 2494–2497. 1 indexed citations
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Cartes, David A., et al.. (2002). Low frequency acoustic test cell for the evaluation of circumaural headsets and hearing protection. Canadian acoustics. 30(1). 13–20. 2 indexed citations
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Ray, Laura, et al.. (2000). <title>Optimization of control laws for damage detection in smart structures</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3984. 395–402. 14 indexed citations
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Ramasubramanian, Ashok & Laura Ray. (2000). Adaptive friction compensation using extended Kalman-Bucy filter friction estimation: a comparative study. 20. 2588–2594 vol.4. 18 indexed citations
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Cartes, David A., et al.. (2000). Experimental evaluation of leaky LMS algorithms for active noise reduction in communication headsets. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 108(5_Supplement). 2483–2484. 2 indexed citations
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Stengel, Robert F., Laura Ray, & Christopher I. Marrison. (1995). Probabilistic evaluation of control system robustness†. International Journal of Systems Science. 26(7). 1363–1382. 22 indexed citations

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