Sihao Sun

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 960 citations indexed

About

Sihao Sun is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Sihao Sun has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 960 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 12 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Sihao Sun's work include Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (9 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (7 papers) and Aerospace and Aviation Technology (6 papers). Sihao Sun is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (9 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (7 papers) and Aerospace and Aviation Technology (6 papers). Sihao Sun collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and Switzerland. Sihao Sun's co-authors include Davide Scaramuzza, Wayne E. King, Brent L. Adams, Philipp Foehn, Ángel Romero, Elia Kaufmann, Xuerui Wang, Coen C. de Visser, Qiping Chu and Erik-Jan Van Kampen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics.

In The Last Decade

Sihao Sun

26 papers receiving 935 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight

2022 135 citations Sihao Sun, Ángel Romero et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sihao Sun Netherlands	13	444	333	231	215	188	32	960
Justin Kerr United States	13	127 0.3×	228 0.7×	285 1.2×	272 1.3×	67 0.4×	40	860
Rui Xu China	17	496 1.1×	364 1.1×	105 0.5×	108 0.5×	104 0.6×	122	978
Dongping Jin China	25	844 1.9×	1.3k 3.8×	70 0.3×	79 0.4×	216 1.1×	122	2.0k
Guoping Cai China	24	876 2.0×	666 2.0×	51 0.2×	52 0.2×	296 1.6×	137	1.7k
D. Necsulescu Canada	14	405 0.9×	95 0.3×	145 0.6×	28 0.1×	232 1.2×	89	719
Zhongjie Meng China	26	656 1.5×	1.6k 4.8×	141 0.6×	85 0.4×	156 0.8×	100	1.9k
Zhanxia Zhu China	15	190 0.4×	365 1.1×	163 0.7×	30 0.1×	89 0.5×	76	657
Jingrui Zhang China	22	516 1.2×	913 2.7×	66 0.3×	42 0.2×	136 0.7×	115	1.4k
Paolo Gasbarri Italy	26	682 1.5×	1.0k 3.0×	79 0.3×	45 0.2×	172 0.9×	100	1.6k
Hui Zhao China	16	397 0.9×	315 0.9×	67 0.3×	25 0.1×	179 1.0×	154	918

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sihao Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Sihao, et al.. (2025). Agile and cooperative aerial manipulation of a cable-suspended load. Science Robotics. 10(107). eadu8015–eadu8015.

Chen, Longlong, et al.. (2025). Immersion and invariance adaptive controller and mixer for coaxial tilt-rotor UAV. ISA Transactions. 166. 353–363.

Fu, Zhengping, et al.. (2025). Proximal cooperative aerial manipulation with vertically stacked drones. Nature. 646(8085). 576–583.

Sun, Sihao, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty Modeling Enabled Meta Adaptive Control for Aerial Manipulators. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 47(10). 2148–2163.

Pan, Wei, et al.. (2024). Modular Adaptive Aerial Manipulation Under Unknown Dynamic Coupling Forces. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 30(4). 2688–2698. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Sihao & Antonio Franchi. (2023). Nonlinear MPC for Full-Pose Manipulation of a Cable-Suspended Load using Multiple UAVs. University of Twente Research Information. 969–975. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Sihao, et al.. (2023). Fast Loss of Effectiveness Detection on a Quadrotor using Onboard Sensors and a Kalman Estimation Approach. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 6 indexed citations

Romero, Ángel, Sihao Sun, Philipp Foehn, & Davide Scaramuzza. (2022). Model Predictive Contouring Control for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Flight. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 38(6). 3340–3356. 103 indexed citations

Sun, Sihao, Giovanni Cioffi, Coen C. de Visser, & Davide Scaramuzza. (2022). Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xuerui & Sihao Sun. (2021). Incremental fault-tolerant control for a hybrid quad-plane UAV subjected to a complete rotor loss. Aerospace Science and Technology. 125. 107105–107105. 23 indexed citations

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Hanover, Drew, Philipp Foehn, Sihao Sun, Elia Kaufmann, & Davide Scaramuzza. (2021). Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors. arXiv (Cornell University). 86 indexed citations

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Sun, Sihao, et al.. (2019). A Novel Signal Processing Method Based on Cross-correlation and Interpolation for ToF Measurement. 664–668. 14 indexed citations

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Lin, Luan, et al.. (2019). A Novel Efficient Soft Computing Model for Natural Gas Compressibility Factor based on GMDH neural network. 21. 330–334.

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Sun, Sihao, et al.. (2018). High-Speed Flight of Quadrotor Despite Loss of Single Rotor. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 3201–3207. 45 indexed citations

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Sun, Sihao, Coen C. de Visser, & Qiping Chu. (2018). Quadrotor Gray-Box Model Identification from High-Speed Flight Data. Journal of Aircraft. 56(2). 645–661. 38 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jian, Hongwei Liu, & Sihao Sun. (2017). Spray process for in situ synthesizing Ti(C,N)-TiB₂-Al₂O₃ composite ceramic coatings. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 274. 12035–12035. 3 indexed citations

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Chandra, Sayan, et al.. (2010). Probing magnetic anisotropy and exchange bias in coupled Au-Fe$_{3}$O$_{4}$ nanoclusters. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010.

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Sun, Sihao, et al.. (2002). Models and simulation of the switched reluctance motor drive with the microcomputer control based on MATLAB software package. b. 493–496. 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Sihao, Brent L. Adams, & Wayne E. King. (2000). Observations of lattice curvature near the interface of a deformed aluminium bicrystal. Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties. 80(1). 9–25. 225 indexed citations

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Schwartz, A. J., J. S. Stölken, Wayne E. King, et al.. (1998). Analysis of Compression Behavior of a [011] TA Single Crystal with Orientation Imaging Microscopy and Crystal Plasticity. MRS Proceedings. 539. 4 indexed citations

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