Michael Athans

21.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
279 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Athans is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Athans has authored 279 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 62 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 55 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Athans's work include Advanced Control Systems Optimization (76 papers), Control Systems and Identification (73 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (51 papers). Michael Athans is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Control Systems Optimization (76 papers), Control Systems and Identification (73 papers) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (51 papers). Michael Athans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and United Kingdom. Michael Athans's co-authors include Jeff S. Shamma, John N. Tsitsiklis, William S. Levine, Michael G. Safonov, N. Sandell, Dimitri P. Bertsekas, G. Stein, Peter Falb, L. Valavani and C.E. Rohrs 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

Michael Athans

266 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

Distributed asynchronous ... 1966 2026 1986 2006 1986 1978 1970 1966 1990 400 800 1.2k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Athans 9.4k 2.7k 2.6k 2.1k 1.2k 279 14.4k
J.B. Moore 6.2k 0.7× 3.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 302 12.4k
Graham C. Goodwin 14.9k 1.6× 2.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 747 0.4× 2.0k 1.7× 558 18.5k
Pramod P. Khargonekar 14.2k 1.5× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 2.5k 2.1× 367 18.1k
D.Q. Mayne 17.7k 1.9× 1.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.6× 215 21.3k
Pétros Ioannou 17.0k 1.8× 2.5k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 2.1k 1.7× 397 22.0k
Kumpati S. Narendra 18.1k 1.9× 7.7k 2.8× 2.8k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 2.0k 1.7× 266 24.6k
Alberto Isidori 22.5k 2.4× 1.6k 0.6× 2.5k 0.9× 2.7k 1.3× 2.1k 1.8× 200 26.1k
Dennis S. Bernstein 18.2k 1.9× 1.9k 0.7× 4.1k 1.5× 4.1k 1.9× 1.7k 1.4× 815 24.1k
V. Balakrishnan 16.3k 1.7× 2.0k 0.8× 5.3k 2.0× 1.2k 0.5× 2.5k 2.1× 161 21.7k
Sanjoy K. Mitter 6.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 562 0.3× 1.3k 1.1× 151 12.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Athans

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Athans

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All Works

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Valavani, L., et al.. (1984). Adaptive control with variable dead-zone nonlinearities. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 4 indexed citations
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Bodson, Marc, et al.. (1982). Real time estimation and prediction of ship motions using Kalman filtering techniques. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 82. 31637. 2 indexed citations
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Triantafyllou, Michael S. & Michael Athans. (1981). Real Time Estimation of the Heaving and Pitching Motions of a Ship, Using a Kalman Filter. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1090–1095. 21 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael & David A. Castañón. (1977). The Stochastic Control of the F-8C Aircraft Using a MMAC Method - I: Equilibrium Flight. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 22(5). 3 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael, et al.. (1976). Properties of Matched and Mismatched Kalman Filters.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1975). Theory and applications survey of decentralized control methods. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4. 2 indexed citations
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Chang, C., et al.. (1975). Application of Adaptive Filtering Methods to Maneuvering Trajectory Estimation. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 5 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1974). The Importance of Kalman Filtering Methods for Economic Systems. NBER Chapters. 10(2). 49–64. 53 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael, et al.. (1972). On Simultaneous Choice of Dynamic Control and Measurement Strategies for Stochastic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 10(10). 176–182. 7 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1971). Optimal Control for Uncertain Systems.. 1 indexed citations
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Tse, Edison & Michael Athans. (1971). The status of observer theory for linear systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 9(9). 17–18. 1 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael & Hans P. Geering. (1971). Optimal control theory for non-scalar valued performance criteria. 74(7). 1495–1502. 3 indexed citations
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Levis, Alexander H., Michael Athans, & R.A. Schlueter. (1970). On the behavior of optimal linear sampled-data regulators. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 8(8). 659–669. 15 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1970). On optimal allocation and guidance laws for linear interception and rendezvous problems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 8(8). 196–205. 2 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1969). Some remarks on the control of distributed parameter systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 7(7). 615–617. 2 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael, et al.. (1968). Design of waveguides and transmission lines by the distributed maximum principle.. 1 indexed citations
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Levis, Alexander W. & Michael Athans. (1968). ON THE OPTIMAL SAMPLED DATA CONTROL OF STRINGS OF VEHICLE AND SAMPLED-DATA CONTROL OF HIGH-SPEED TRAINS. Transportation Science. 1 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael & Fred C. Schweppe. (1967). Optimal waveform design via control theoretic concepts. Information and Control. 10(4). 335–377. 40 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1967). The matrix minimum principle. Information and Control. 11(5-6). 592–606. 293 indexed citations
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Athans, Michael. (1963). TIME- AND FUEL-OPTIMAL ATTITUDE CONTROL. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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