Nathan Harl

595 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 457 citations indexed

About

Nathan Harl is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Harl has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 457 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 6 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Nathan Harl's work include Guidance and Control Systems (8 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (5 papers) and Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (3 papers). Nathan Harl is often cited by papers focused on Guidance and Control Systems (8 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (5 papers) and Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (3 papers). Nathan Harl collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nathan Harl's co-authors include S.N. Balakrishnan, Karthikeyan Rajagopal and Henry J. Pernicka and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics and Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Harl

10 papers receiving 447 citations

Hit Papers

Impact Time and Angle Guidance With Sliding Mode Control 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
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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. Impact Time and Angle Guidance With Sliding Mode Control
    2011 313 citations Nathan Harl, S.N. Balakrishnan IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology profile →

Peers

Nathan Harl
Oded Golan Israel
Bong-Gyun Park South Korea
Yao Zhao China
Tuo Han China
Takeshi Yamasaki Japan
Christian Tournes United States
Raziye Tekin Türkiye
Sheng Sun China
Hangju Cho South Korea
Seong-Ho Song South Korea
Oded Golan Israel
Nathan Harl
Citations per year, relative to Nathan Harl Nathan Harl (= 1×) peers Oded Golan

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Harl

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan Harl

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Harl

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Harl, Nathan, Karthikeyan Rajagopal, & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2013). Neural Network Based Modified State Observer for Orbit Uncertainty Estimation. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 36(4). 1194–1209. 19 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan, Karthikeyan Rajagopal, & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2011). Modified State Observer for Orbit Uncertainty Estimation. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. 6 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2011). Impact Time and Angle Guidance With Sliding Mode Control. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 20(6). 1436–1449. 313 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harl, Nathan, et al.. (2010). Sliding Mode Integrated Missile Guidance and Control. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. 21 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2010). Co-Ordinated Rendezvous of Unmanned Air Vehicles to a Formation Using a Sliding Mode Approach. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 225(1). 105–119. 8 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2009). Reentry Terminal Guidance Through Sliding Mode Control. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 33(1). 186–199. 60 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2009). Impact Time and Angle Guidance with Sliding Mode Control. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. 20 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan & Henry J. Pernicka. (2009). Low-Thrust Control of a Lunar Mapping Orbit. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 32(3). 939–948. 2 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan. (2008). Coordinated Rendezvous of Unmanned Air Vehicles: A Sliding Mode Approach. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit. 5 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan & S.N. Balakrishnan. (2008). Coordinated Rendezvous of Unmanned Air Vehicles: A Sliding Mode Approach. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit. 3 indexed citations
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Harl, Nathan. (2008). Reentry Terminal Guidance Through Sliding Mode Control. AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference and Exhibit.

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