Maarouf Saad

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
344 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Maarouf Saad is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Maarouf Saad has authored 344 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 214 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 88 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 82 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Maarouf Saad's work include Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (99 papers), Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (49 papers) and Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (44 papers). Maarouf Saad is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (99 papers), Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (49 papers) and Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (44 papers). Maarouf Saad collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Oman. Maarouf Saad's co-authors include Jawhar Ghommam, Jean‐Pierre Kenné, Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Hadi Y. Kanaan, Hasan Mehrjerdi, Yassine Kali, Kamal Al‐Haddad, Charles Fallaha, Philippe S. Archambault and S. Lefebvre and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Maarouf Saad

324 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Sliding-Mode Robot Control With Exponential Reaching Law 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 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. Sliding-Mode Robot Control With Exponential Reaching Law
    2010 428 citations Maarouf Saad et al. profile →

Peers

Maarouf Saad
Yongping Pan China
Jingang Yi United States
George K. I. Mann Canada
Bin Yao United States
Heidar Ali Talebi Iran
Clarence W. de Silva Canada
Keigo Watanabe Japan
Ricardo Carelli Argentina
Cristian Secchi Italy
Yongchun Fang China
Yongping Pan China
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Fields of papers citing papers by Maarouf Saad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maarouf Saad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Maarouf Saad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Maarouf Saad 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 Maarouf Saad. Maarouf Saad 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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Ghommam, Jawhar, Maarouf Saad, Mohammad Habibur Rahman, & Quanmin Zhu. (2025). Prescribed Performance Resilient Motion Coordination With Actor–Critic Reinforcement Learning Design for UAV-USV Systems. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 6(12). 3336–3350. 1 indexed citations
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Ghommam, Jawhar, et al.. (2025). Fixed-time adaptive cooperative control architecture for air-ground target tracking using UAV and UGV with dynamic constraints. International Journal of Control. 98(12). 2858–2875.
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Ghommam, Jawhar, et al.. (2025). Cascaded Extended‐State‐Observer‐Based Synergetic Control for Quadcopter Translational Dynamics. Journal of Field Robotics. 42(7). 3153–3171.
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Kali, Yassine, et al.. (2024). Finite-time variable gains super-twisting control for lane-changing of autonomous vehicles. AIP conference proceedings. 3063. 60004–60004. 1 indexed citations
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Benjelloun, Khalid, et al.. (2023). Constrained model predictive control of an industrial high-rate thickener. Journal of Process Control. 133. 103147–103147. 2 indexed citations
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Kali, Yassine, et al.. (2023). Learning human inverse kinematics solutions for redundant robotic upper-limb rehabilitation. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 126. 106966–106966. 3 indexed citations
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Brahmi, Brahim, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical perturbation compensation system with ERL sliding mode controller in a quadrotor. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 26. 100232–100232. 2 indexed citations
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Luque-Vega, Luis F., et al.. (2022). UAV-Based Smart Educational Mechatronics System Using a MoCap Laboratory and Hardware-in-the-Loop. Sensors. 22(15). 5707–5707. 7 indexed citations
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Kali, Yassine, Maarouf Saad, Jesús Doval‐Gandoy, & Jorge Rodas. (2021). Discrete Terminal Super-Twisting Current Control of a Six-Phase Induction Motor. Energies. 14(5). 1339–1339. 12 indexed citations
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Kali, Yassine, Magno Ayala, Jorge Rodas, et al.. (2020). Time Delay Estimation Based Discrete-Time Super-Twisting Current Control for a Six-Phase Induction Motor. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 35(11). 12570–12580. 28 indexed citations
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Kali, Yassine, Magno Ayala, Jorge Rodas, et al.. (2019). Current Control of a Six-Phase Induction Machine Drive Based on Discrete-Time Sliding Mode with Time Delay Estimation. Energies. 12(1). 170–170. 41 indexed citations
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Rodas, Jorge, et al.. (2019). Robust Flight Control of a Tri-Rotor UAV based on Modified Super-Twisting Algorithm. 551–556. 6 indexed citations
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Rahman, Md Habibur, et al.. (2014). Development of a whole arm wearable robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation and to assist upper limb movements. Robotica. 33(1). 19–39. 148 indexed citations
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Rahman, Mohammad Habibur, et al.. (2012). Development and Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton for Shoulder, Elbow and Forearm Movement Assistance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22 indexed citations
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Fareh, Raouf, et al.. (2012). Hierarchical adaptive control for 3 DOF manipulator using sliding mode technique. World Automation Congress. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Mehrjerdi, Hasan, Jawhar Ghommam, & Maarouf Saad. (2011). Nonlinear coordination control for a group of mobile robots using a virtual structure. Mechatronics. 21(7). 1147–1155. 57 indexed citations
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Saad, Maarouf, et al.. (2004). Sliding mode control for multivariable processes. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 3 indexed citations
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Saliah-Hassane, Hamadou, et al.. (2002). Generic Simulator Model for Training and Learning in Virtual Laboratory Environments. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2002(1). 2023–2026. 1 indexed citations

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