Scott Pendleton

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 771 citations indexed

About

Scott Pendleton is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Pendleton has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 771 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Automotive Engineering, 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Scott Pendleton's work include Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (11 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (9 papers) and Transportation and Mobility Innovations (4 papers). Scott Pendleton is often cited by papers focused on Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (11 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (9 papers) and Transportation and Mobility Innovations (4 papers). Scott Pendleton collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and Canada. Scott Pendleton's co-authors include Marcelo H. Ang, Hans Andersen, Xiaotong Shen, You Hong Eng, Daniela Rus, Malika Meghjani, Xinxin Du, Wei Liu, Seong-Woo Kim and Emilio Frazzoli and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Machines and arXiv (Cornell University).

In The Last Decade

Scott Pendleton

17 papers receiving 749 citations

Hit Papers

Perception, Planning, Control, and Coordination for Auton... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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. Perception, Planning, Control, and Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles
    2017 415 citations Scott Pendleton, Hans Andersen et al. Machines profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Scott Pendleton Singapore 12 509 291 220 118 99 18 771
Hans Andersen Singapore 11 426 0.8× 277 1.0× 175 0.8× 103 0.9× 94 0.9× 15 673
Malika Meghjani Singapore 12 328 0.6× 284 1.0× 130 0.6× 150 1.3× 61 0.6× 30 739
You Hong Eng Singapore 10 366 0.7× 252 0.9× 187 0.8× 111 0.9× 55 0.6× 13 647
Michael Aeberhard Germany 12 529 1.0× 212 0.7× 248 1.1× 89 0.8× 93 0.9× 20 731
Xinxin Du Singapore 10 562 1.1× 473 1.6× 268 1.2× 170 1.4× 56 0.6× 18 966
Johannes Betz Germany 18 623 1.2× 374 1.3× 252 1.1× 216 1.8× 70 0.7× 88 1.1k
Laurène Claussmann France 5 401 0.8× 279 1.0× 219 1.0× 54 0.5× 58 0.6× 6 580
Markus Kuderer Germany 8 286 0.6× 244 0.8× 241 1.1× 83 0.7× 106 1.1× 11 637
Yuchen Li China 10 403 0.8× 342 1.2× 295 1.3× 131 1.1× 59 0.6× 22 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Pendleton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Pendleton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Pendleton

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Eng, You Hong, et al.. (2022). HiddenGems: Efficient safety boundary detection with active learning. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 5147–5154.
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Pendleton, Scott, et al.. (2021). Safety of the Intended Driving Behavior Using Rulebooks. arXiv (Cornell University). 136–143. 3 indexed citations
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Pendleton, Scott, Hans Andersen, Wilko Schwarting, et al.. (2017). A parallel autonomy research platform. 933–940. 21 indexed citations
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Pendleton, Scott, Hans Andersen, Xinxin Du, et al.. (2017). Perception, Planning, Control, and Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles. Machines. 5(1). 6–6. 415 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pendleton, Scott, Wei Liu, Hans Andersen, et al.. (2017). Numerical Approach to Reachability-Guided Sampling-Based Motion Planning Under Differential Constraints. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2(3). 1232–1239. 13 indexed citations
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Andersen, Hans, Zhuang Jie Chong, You Hong Eng, Scott Pendleton, & Marcelo H. Ang. (2016). Geometric path tracking algorithm for autonomous driving in pedestrian environment. 1669–1674. 29 indexed citations
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Pendleton, Scott, Hans Andersen, Xiaotong Shen, et al.. (2016). Multi-class autonomous vehicles for mobility-on-demand service. 204–211. 11 indexed citations
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Pendleton, Scott, et al.. (2016). Pedestrian Notification Methods in Autonomous Vehicles for Multi-Class Mobility-on-Demand Service. 387–392. 41 indexed citations
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Andersen, Hans, et al.. (2016). Autonomous personal mobility scooter for multi-class mobility-on-demand service. 1753–1760. 22 indexed citations
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Pendleton, Scott, Zhuang Jie Chong, Baoxing Qin, et al.. (2015). Autonomous golf cars for public trial of mobility-on-demand service. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1164–1171. 33 indexed citations
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Shen, Xiaotong, et al.. (2015). Multi-vehicle motion coordination using V2V communication. 1334–1341. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei, Seong-Woo Kim, Scott Pendleton, & Marcelo H. Ang. (2015). Situation-aware decision making for autonomous driving on urban road using online POMDP. 1126–1133. 68 indexed citations
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Azevedo, Carlos Lima, et al.. (2015). Autonomous mobility on demand in SimMobility: Case study of the central business district in Singapore. 167–172. 37 indexed citations
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Shen, Xiaotong, Scott Pendleton, & Marcelo H. Ang. (2015). Efficient L-shape fitting of laser scanner data for vehicle pose estimation. 173–178. 30 indexed citations
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Zhang, T., Z. J. Chong, Bo Qin, et al.. (2014). Sensor fusion for localization, mapping and navigation in an indoor environment. 11. 1–6. 13 indexed citations
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Pendleton, Scott. (2013). Moving Obstacle Avoidance Via Time-Varying Cost Map. 345–356. 1 indexed citations

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