Randal W. Beard

32.7k total citations · 16 hit papers
260 papers, 24.2k citations indexed

About

Randal W. Beard is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Randal W. Beard has authored 260 papers receiving a total of 24.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 112 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 92 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Randal W. Beard's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (85 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (67 papers) and Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (59 papers). Randal W. Beard is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (85 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (67 papers) and Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (59 papers). Randal W. Beard collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Randal W. Beard's co-authors include Wei Ren, Timothy W. McLain, Ella Atkins, Wei Ren, Wei Ren, Jonathan Lawton, Derek Kingston, Wei Ren, Fred Y. Hadaegh and Bobbi Young and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Proceedings of the IEEE and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Randal W. Beard

249 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Consensus seeking in multiagent systems under dynamically changing interaction topologies

2005 5.0k citations Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard profile →
Information consensus in multivehicle cooperative control

2007 2.4k citations Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control

2007 2.1k citations Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination

2005 1.0k citations Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
Small Unmanned Aircraft

2012 906 citations Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain profile →
A coordination architecture for spacecraft formation control

2001 832 citations Randal W. Beard, Jonathan Lawton et al. profile →
A decentralized approach to formation maneuvers

2003 795 citations Jonathan Lawton, Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control: Theory and Applications

2007 676 citations Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles

2002 591 citations Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain et al. profile →
Decentralized Scheme for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure Approach

2004 563 citations Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics profile →
Galerkin approximations of the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation

1997 492 citations Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
Vector Field Path Following for Miniature Air Vehicles

2007 472 citations Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard et al. profile →
Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles

2006 411 citations David W. Casbeer, Derek Kingston et al. profile →
Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs

2006 344 citations Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain et al. profile →
Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice

2012 338 citations Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain profile →
Synchronized multiple spacecraft rotations

2002 325 citations Jonathan Lawton, Randal W. Beard profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How to Adapt Control Barrier Functions? A Learning-Based Approach with Applications to a VTOL Quadplane 2025 ·(unknown), Randal W. Beard, Dimitra Panagou	0
2	Avoidance of Constant Velocity Targets Using Bearing and Time- to-Collision 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Randal W. Beard	2
3	Encirclement of Moving Targets Using Noisy Range and Bearing Measurements 2022 ·Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics ·Puneet Jain, Cameron K. Peterson, Randal W. Beard	9
4	Tracking Multiple Vehicles Constrained to a Road Network From a UAV with Sparse Visual Measurements 2021 ·Frontiers in Robotics and AI ·(unknown), (unknown), Cameron K. Peterson, Randal W. Beard	3
5	Extending Motion Detection to Track Stopped Objects in Visual Multi-Target Tracking 2018 ·(unknown), (unknown), Randal W. Beard	1
6	Parameter estimation for towed cable systems using moving horizon estimation 2015 ·IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ·Liang Sun, (unknown), John D. Hedengren, Randal W. Beard	24
7	Relative navigation approach for vision-based aerial GPS-denied navigation 2013 ·ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) ·Robert C. Leishman, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard	9
8	Enhanced UAS Surveillance Using a Video Utility Metric 2013 ·Unmanned Systems ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Randal W. Beard, Bryan S. Morse, (unknown)	10
9	A Staged Path Planner for an Unmanned Air System Performing Surveillance 2012 ·AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference ·(unknown), (unknown), Randal W. Beard, (unknown)	1
10	Distributed Cooperative SLAM using an Information Consensus Filter* 2010 ·AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference ·Rajnikant Sharma, Clark N. Taylor, David W. Casbeer, Randal W. Beard	3
11	Tracking a target in wind using a micro air vehicle with a fixed angle camera 2008 ·Jeffery Saunders, Randal W. Beard	11
12	Target Acquisition, Localization, and Surveillance Using a Fixed-Wing Mini-UAV and Gimbaled Camera 2006 ·Morgan Quigley, Michael A. Goodrich, Stephen R. Griffiths, (unknown), Randal W. Beard	122
13	Discrete-time average-consensus under switching network topologies 2006 ·Derek Kingston, Randal W. Beard	103
14	Consensus of information under dynamically changing interaction topologies 2004 ·Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard	107
15	Goal! 2004 ·IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine ·James K. Archibald, Randal W. Beard	4
16	Multi-spacecraft trajectory optimization and control using genetic algorithm techniques 2002 ·S. Li, R.К. Mehra, (unknown), Randal W. Beard	24
17	Elementary attitude formation maneuvers via leader-following and behavior-based control 2000 ·AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit ·Jonathan Lawton, Randal W. Beard, Fred Y. Hadaegh	30
18	Fuel equalized retargeting for separated spacecraft interferometry 1998 ·ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) ·Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Fred Y. Hadaegh	16
19	A practical algorithm for designing nonlinear H/sub /spl infin// control laws 1998 ·Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain	1
20	Cometary coma particulate modelling for the ROSETTA mission aphelion rendezvous. 1992 ·Annales Geophysicae ·J. A. M. McDonnell, Randal W. Beard, Simon Green, G. Schwehm	7

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