N. Sandell

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

N. Sandell is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Sandell has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in N. Sandell's work include Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks (22 papers), Control Systems and Identification (16 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (13 papers). N. Sandell is often cited by papers focused on Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks (22 papers), Control Systems and Identification (16 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (13 papers). N. Sandell collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. N. Sandell's co-authors include Michael Athans, Robert R. Tenney, Pravin Varaiya, Michael G. Safonov, N. Lehtomaki, Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Alan J. Laub, Gerhard Lauer and Yoram Baram and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

In The Last Decade

N. Sandell

69 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Survey of decentralized control methods for large scale systems

1978 717 citations N. Sandell, Pravin Varaiya et al. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
Detection with Distributed Sensors

1981 599 citations N. Sandell et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
N. Sandell	1.9k	1.1k	984	651	372	70	3.6k
Robert R. Bitmead	2.7k 1.4×	756 0.7×	393 0.4×	467 0.7×	442 1.2×	226	4.6k
H. S. Witsenhausen	938 0.5×	677 0.6×	889 0.9×	678 1.0×	460 1.2×	64	3.0k
Geir E. Dullerud	3.1k 1.6×	544 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	577 0.9×	693 1.9×	175	4.6k
R. Sivan	2.8k 1.4×	473 0.4×	270 0.3×	344 0.5×	439 1.2×	33	4.2k
Sanjay Lall	2.1k 1.1×	810 0.8×	2.9k 2.9×	1.2k 1.8×	530 1.4×	127	5.6k
A. Varga	1.4k 0.7×	251 0.2×	2.1k 2.2×	1.3k 2.0×	580 1.6×	147	4.7k
Ari Arapostathis	1.6k 0.8×	326 0.3×	663 0.7×	1.3k 2.0×	341 0.9×	146	3.7k
P. Dorato	4.3k 2.3×	344 0.3×	921 0.9×	284 0.4×	754 2.0×	122	5.2k
Wook Hyun Кwon	3.5k 1.8×	715 0.7×	2.3k 2.4×	924 1.4×	647 1.7×	226	5.4k
A.G.J. MacFarlane	2.9k 1.5×	415 0.4×	266 0.3×	429 0.7×	1.1k 3.0×	95	4.2k

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

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Sandell, N., et al.. (1983). Distributed detection of signal waveforms in additive Gaussian observation noise. STIN. 84. 10434. 1 indexed citations

Bertsekas, Dimitri P. & N. Sandell. (1982). Estimates of the duality gap for large-scale separable nonconvex optimization problems. 782–785. 23 indexed citations

Lauer, Gerhard, et al.. (1982). Solution of Large-Scale Optimal Unit Commitment Problems. IEEE Power Engineering Review. PER-2(1). 23–24. 8 indexed citations

Sandell, N., et al.. (1982). Distributed Detection with Waveform Observations: Correlated Observation Processes. 812–819. 10 indexed citations

Wall, Joseph E., Alan S. Willsky, & N. Sandell. (1981). On the fixed-interval smoothing problem. Stochastics. 5(1-2). 1–41. 67 indexed citations

Bertsekas, Dimitri P., et al.. (1981). Optimal short-term scheduling of large-scale power systems. 432–443. 2 indexed citations

Wall, Joseph E., Alan S. Willsky, & N. Sandell. (1979). Control of circulant systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 16(16). 854–860. 2 indexed citations

Chang, C., K. Dunn, & N. Sandell. (1979). A Cramer-Rao bound for nonlinear filtering problems with additive Gaussian measurement noise. 511–512. 3 indexed citations

Lehtomaki, N., et al.. (1979). Robust control of multiterminal dc/ac systems. 886–896. 4 indexed citations

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Athans, Michael, et al.. (1979). Investigation of the Multiple Method Adaptive Control (MMAC) method for flight control systems. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Looze, Douglas P., Paul Houpt, N. Sandell, & Michael Athans. (1978). On decentralized estimation and control with application to freeway ramp metering. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 23(2). 268–275.

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Sandell, N., et al.. (1978). MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD IDENTIFICATION OF STATE SPACE MODELS FOR LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS. 24 indexed citations

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Athans, Michael, P. Bernhard, E.J. Davison, et al.. (1978). IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Special Issue on Large-Scale Systems and Decentralized Control. 2 indexed citations

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Baram, Yoram & N. Sandell. (1978). An information theoretic approach to dynamical systems modeling and identification. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 23(1). 61–66. 88 indexed citations

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Sandell, N. & Michael Athans. (1978). A finite-state, finite-memory minimum principle. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 25(2). 289–305. 3 indexed citations

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Looze, Douglas P. & N. Sandell. (1977). Decentralization and decomposition in linear stochastic control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 14(14). 731–736. 2 indexed citations

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Castañón, David A. & N. Sandell. (1977). Equilibrium solutions in sequential stochastic games. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 22(4). 624–627. 5 indexed citations

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Sandell, N., et al.. (1976). An iterative decoupling solution method for large scale Lyapunov equations. 2 indexed citations

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Sandell, N.. (1976). Decomposition vs. decentralization in large-scale system theory. 1043–1046. 8 indexed citations

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Athans, Michael, N. Sandell, & Pravin Varaiya. (1975). Stability of interconnected systems. 456–462. 2 indexed citations

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