Reza Olfati‐Saber

37.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
45 papers, 27.0k citations indexed

About

Reza Olfati‐Saber is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Reza Olfati‐Saber has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 27.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 20 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Reza Olfati‐Saber's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (22 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (11 papers) and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (10 papers). Reza Olfati‐Saber is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (22 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (11 papers) and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (10 papers). Reza Olfati‐Saber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Cyprus. Reza Olfati‐Saber's co-authors include Richard M. Murray, Jeff S. Shamma, D.P. Spanos, Shawn C. Shadden, Jerrold E. Marsden, Dong Eui Chang, Alexandre Megretski, Marios M. Polycarpou, Elisa Franco and Thomas Parisini and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Reza Olfati‐Saber

45 papers receiving 26.0k citations

Hit Papers

Consensus Problems in Networks of Agents With Switching T... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2007 2006 2007 2006 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Consensus Problems in Networks of Agents With Switching Topology and Time-Delays
    2004 9.5k citations Reza Olfati‐Saber, Richard M. Murray IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  2. Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems
    2007 7.4k citations Reza Olfati‐Saber, Richard M. Murray et al. Proceedings of the IEEE profile →
  3. Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and Theory
    2006 3.7k citations Reza Olfati‐Saber IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control profile →
  4. Distributed Kalman filtering for sensor networks
    2007 1.2k citations Reza Olfati‐Saber profile →
  5. Distributed Kalman Filter with Embedded Consensus Filters
    2006 778 citations Reza Olfati‐Saber profile →
  6. Consensus Filters for Sensor Networks and Distributed Sensor Fusion
    2006 739 citations Reza Olfati‐Saber, Jeff S. Shamma profile →
  7. Kalman-Consensus Filter : Optimality, stability, and performance
    2009 519 citations Reza Olfati‐Saber profile →
  8. DISTRIBUTED COOPERATIVE CONTROL OF MULTIPLE VEHICLE FORMATIONS USING STRUCTURAL POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    2002 518 citations Reza Olfati‐Saber, Richard M. Murray profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Reza Olfati‐Saber United States 31 23.1k 8.9k 3.6k 3.5k 2.5k 45 27.0k
A. Stephen Morse United States 71 13.5k 0.6× 16.9k 1.9× 1.7k 0.5× 2.7k 0.8× 2.1k 0.8× 264 27.9k
Francesco Bullo United States 62 11.5k 0.5× 8.6k 1.0× 2.1k 0.6× 3.8k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 350 20.6k
Randal W. Beard United States 52 16.4k 0.7× 8.7k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 7.8k 3.1× 260 24.2k
Ali Jadbabaie United States 47 11.6k 0.5× 4.4k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 1.3k 0.5× 238 15.6k
Gang Feng Hong Kong 91 16.9k 0.7× 21.8k 2.4× 5.6k 1.5× 3.4k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 843 32.5k
Wei Ren United States 64 15.5k 0.7× 8.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 251 18.0k
Jorge Cortés United States 45 9.7k 0.4× 4.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 1.7k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 313 13.3k
Wenwu Yu China 73 18.2k 0.8× 7.4k 0.8× 1.5k 0.4× 3.0k 0.9× 896 0.4× 268 21.1k
Magnus Egerstedt United States 51 9.1k 0.4× 6.1k 0.7× 1.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 449 15.2k
George J. Pappas United States 74 8.7k 0.4× 6.3k 0.7× 4.3k 1.2× 1.9k 0.6× 3.0k 1.2× 485 20.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jäger, Sven, et al.. (2023). Surface ID: a geometry-aware system for protein molecular surface comparison. Bioinformatics. 39(4). 6 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza, et al.. (2012). Flocking for Networks of Mobile Robots with Nonlinear Dynamics. 353–359. 1 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza, et al.. (2012). Information-driven self-deployment and dynamic sensor coverage for mobile sensor networks. 42. 4933–4938. 7 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza, et al.. (2012). Coupled Distributed Estimation and Control for Mobile Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 57(10). 2609–2614. 225 indexed citations
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Lee, Yoosook, Travis C. Collier, Charles Taylor, & Reza Olfati‐Saber. (2009). Simplicity from complexity: emergence of cohesion in the evolutionary dynamics of grammar networks. 11(3). 433–445. 3 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza, et al.. (2008). Distributed tracking in sensor networks with limited sensing range. 3157–3162. 112 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2007). Distributed Kalman filtering for sensor networks. 5492–5498. 1191 indexed citations breakdown →
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza, et al.. (2007). Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE. 95(1). 215–233. 7432 indexed citations breakdown →
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2007). Algebraic Connectivity Ratio of Ramanujan Graphs. 4619–4624. 30 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2007). Distributed Tracking for Mobile Sensor Networks with Information-Driven Mobility. Proceedings of the ... American Control Conference. 4606–4612. 115 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2006). Distributed Kalman Filter with Embedded Consensus Filters. 8179–8184. 778 indexed citations breakdown →
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza & Jeff S. Shamma. (2006). Consensus Filters for Sensor Networks and Distributed Sensor Fusion. 6698–6703. 739 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spanos, D.P., Reza Olfati‐Saber, & Richard M. Murray. (2005). Approximate distributed Kalman filtering in sensor networks with quantifiable performance. Information Processing in Sensor Networks. 133–139. 138 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2003). Nonlinear control and reduction of underactuated systems with symmetry. II. Unactuated shape variables case. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228). 5. 4164–4169. 24 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2003). Nonlinear control and reduction of underactuated systems with symmetry.III. Input coupling case. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228). 3778–3783. 15 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2003). Global stabilization of a flat underactuated system: the inertia wheel pendulum. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228). 3764–3765. 46 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza. (2002). Global configuration stabilization for the VTOL aircraft with strong input coupling. 4. 3588–3589. 28 indexed citations
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Olfati‐Saber, Reza & Alexandre Megretski. (2002). Controller design for a class of underactuated nonlinear systems. 4. 4182–4187. 33 indexed citations
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