Robert H. Cannon

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Robert H. Cannon is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert H. Cannon has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 24 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 19 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert H. Cannon's work include Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (16 papers), Space Satellite Systems and Control (16 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (13 papers). Robert H. Cannon is often cited by papers focused on Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems (16 papers), Space Satellite Systems and Control (16 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (13 papers). Robert H. Cannon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Robert H. Cannon's co-authors include Eric Schmitz, Stephanie Schneider, Dan E. Rosenthal, Celia M. Oakley, Arthur E. Bryson, S. C. Coroniti, Stephen M. Rock, C M Oakley, Gerardo Pardo-Castellote and Andrew Conway and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the IEEE and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Robert H. Cannon

58 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Initial Experiments on the End-Point Control of a Flexible One-Link Robot

1984 881 citations Robert H. Cannon, Eric Schmitz The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert H. Cannon United States	18	1.8k	699	379	358	244	63	2.3k
David A. Levinson United States	14	1.3k 0.7×	366 0.5×	343 0.9×	348 1.0×	309 1.3×	41	2.0k
Mohamed Zribi Kuwait	27	2.3k 1.3×	436 0.6×	172 0.5×	199 0.6×	248 1.0×	121	3.0k
Xiuyu He China	25	2.4k 1.3×	437 0.6×	172 0.5×	345 1.0×	267 1.1×	66	2.8k
Jens Wittenburg Germany	9	849 0.5×	278 0.4×	213 0.6×	176 0.5×	183 0.8×	40	1.3k
Rush D. Robinett United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	421 0.6×	83 0.2×	517 1.4×	98 0.4×	197	2.7k
Indra Narayan Kar India	28	1.8k 1.0×	309 0.4×	250 0.7×	279 0.8×	100 0.4×	169	2.5k
Dan Negruţ United States	28	1.0k 0.6×	513 0.7×	176 0.5×	128 0.4×	539 2.2×	172	2.2k
Edwin Kreuzer Germany	21	843 0.5×	318 0.5×	48 0.1×	186 0.5×	176 0.7×	132	1.7k
Xiaokui Yue China	24	835 0.5×	225 0.3×	136 0.4×	884 2.5×	361 1.5×	168	1.9k
Francesco Romeo Italy	20	453 0.2×	350 0.5×	270 0.7×	94 0.3×	828 3.4×	60	1.8k

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (2025). Public trust and blame attribution in human-AI interactions: a comparison between air traffic control and vehicle driving. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 32. 101545–101545.

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Pardo-Castellote, Gerardo & Robert H. Cannon. (2002). Proximate time-optimal algorithm for on-line path parameterization and modification. 2. 1539–1546. 10 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (2002). Experiments with a dual-armed, cooperative, flexible-drivetrain robot system. 601–608. 4 indexed citations

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Pardo-Castellote, Gerardo, Stephanie Schneider, & Robert H. Cannon. (2002). System design and interfaces for intelligent manufacturing workcell. 1. 1105–1112. 7 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H.. (2000). Control of Free-Flying Space Robot Manipulator Systems. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 2 indexed citations

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Conway, Andrew, et al.. (1996). A New Motion-Based Algorithm for GPS Attitude Integer Resolution. NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of Navigation. 43(2). 179–190. 18 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1995). Experimental Demonstration of GPS for Rendezvous Between Two Prototype Space Vehicles. 1905–1913. 19 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1995). Experimental results of two free-flying robots capturing and manipulating a free-flying object. 51–58 vol.2. 13 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1994). Differential Carrier Phase GPS Techniques for Space Vehicle Rendezvous. 1693–1700. 4 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1994). GPS-Based Control for Space Vehicle Rendezvous. 61–69. 3 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1991). Experiments with Simplified Computed-Torque Controllers for Free-Flying Robots. 1478–1484. 2 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1990). An extended operational-space control algorithm for satellite manipulators. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences. 38. 20 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., Jack L. Kerrebrock, L. J. Lanzerotti, et al.. (1990). Human exploration of space: A review of NASA's 90-day study and alternatives. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 10 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1989). Experiments in global navigation and control of a free-flying space robot. 15 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H., et al.. (1986). Experiments on end-point position and force control of a flexible arm with a fast wrist. Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference. 9 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H. & Wei‐Ling Chiang. (1985). The experimental results of a self tuning adaptive controller using online frequency identification. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences. 33. 2 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H. & Eric Schmitz. (1984). Initial Experiments on the End-Point Control of a Flexible One-Link Robot. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 3(3). 62–75. 881 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coroniti, S. C., et al.. (1974). Report of Findings. The Effects of Stratospheric Pollution by Aircraft.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 29 indexed citations

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Coroniti, S. C., et al.. (1974). Report of findings: the effects of stratospheric pollution by aircraft. Final report. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 5 indexed citations

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Cannon, Robert H.. (1959). Closure to “Discussions of ‘Kinematic Drift of Single-Axis Gyroscopes’” (1959, ASME J. Appl. Mech., 26, pp. 303–304). Journal of Applied Mechanics. 26(2). 304–304.

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