Walter Caharija

936 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 747 citations indexed

About

Walter Caharija is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Caharija has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 747 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ocean Engineering, 18 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Walter Caharija's work include Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (20 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (16 papers) and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (9 papers). Walter Caharija is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (20 papers), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (16 papers) and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (9 papers). Walter Caharija collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Italy and Portugal. Walter Caharija's co-authors include Kristin Y. Pettersen, Jan Tommy Gravdahl, Asgeir J. Sørensen, José Braga, Pedro Calado, Marco Bibuli, Gabriele Bruzzone, Enrica Zereik, Even Børhaug and Mauro Candeloro and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Control Engineering Practice and IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Walter Caharija

27 papers receiving 721 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments
    2016 268 citations Walter Caharija, Kristin Y. Pettersen et al. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology profile →

Peers

Walter Caharija
Chengke Xiong China
Pedro Calado Portugal
Andrew Lammas Australia
Sankar Nath Shome India
Filip Mandić Croatia
Daniel Gurdan United States
Jan Stumpf United States
J. Chudley United Kingdom
Pierre-Philippe Beaujean United States
Patryk Cieśląk Spain
Chengke Xiong China
Walter Caharija
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Caharija

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Caharija, Walter, et al.. (2022). Robust adaptive backstepping DP control of ROVs. Control Engineering Practice. 127. 105282–105282. 14 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, et al.. (2021). ROV Navigation in a Fish Cage with Laser-Camera Triangulation. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 9(1). 79–79. 36 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, et al.. (2021). Autonomous Aquaculture: Implementation of an autonomous mission control system for unmanned underwater vehicle operations. OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto. 1–10. 13 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, et al.. (2021). Autonomous ROV Inspections of Aquaculture Net Pens Using DVL. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 1–19. 54 indexed citations
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Su, Biao, Martin Føre, Karl Gunnar Aarsæther, et al.. (2019). A Multipurpose Framework for Modelling and Simulation of Marine Aquaculture Systems. 19 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Asgeir J. Sørensen, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Marilena Greco, & Jan Tommy Gravdahl. (2019). Path Following Control of Underactuated Surface Vessels in the Presence of Multiple Disturbances. 2551–2558. 5 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Esten Ingar Grøtli, & Kristin Y. Pettersen. (2018). Semiglobal Exponential Stability of a Counter-Current and Co-Current Guidance Scheme. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 51(29). 274–280. 5 indexed citations
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Hirdaris, Spyros, et al.. (2017). MAXCMAS project: Autonomous COLREGs compliant ship navigation. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 454–464. 11 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Marco Bibuli, et al.. (2016). Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 24(5). 1623–1642. 268 indexed citations breakdown →
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Caharija, Walter, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Pedro Calado, & José Braga. (2015). A Comparison Between the ILOS Guidance and the Vector Field Guidance. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 48(16). 89–94. 24 indexed citations
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Bibuli, Marco, Walter Caharija, Kristin Y. Pettersen, et al.. (2014). ILOS Guidance - Experiments and Tuning. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 47(3). 4209–4214. 20 indexed citations
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Moe, Signe, Walter Caharija, Kristin Y. Pettersen, & Ingrid Schjølberg. (2014). Path Following of Underactuated Marine Underwater Vehicles in the Presence of Unknown Ocean Currents. 3 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Esten Ingar Grøtli, & Kristin Y. Pettersen. (2014). Improved Counter-Current and Co-Current Guidance of Underactuated Marine Vehicles with Semiglobal Stability Properties. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 47(3). 12166–12173. 2 indexed citations
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Moe, Signe, Walter Caharija, Kristin Y. Pettersen, & Ingrid Schjølberg. (2014). Path following of underactuated marine surface vessels in the presence of unknown ocean currents. 3856–3861. 37 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Kristin Y. Pettersen, & Jan Tommy Gravdahl. (2013). Counter-Current and Co-Current Guidance of Underactuated Unmanned Marine Vehicles. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 46(10). 60–66. 7 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Jan Tommy Gravdahl, & Even Børhaug. (2012). Integral LOS guidance for horizontal path following of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles in the presence of vertical ocean currents. 5427–5434. 43 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Jan Tommy Gravdahl, & Even Børhaug. (2012). Path following of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles in the presence of ocean currents. 528–535. 52 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, et al.. (2010). First and second order polynomial functions for bandwidth reduction of dynamic biasing signals. 50. 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Caharija, Walter, et al.. (2009). A Cost-Based Path-Search Algorithm for Enhanced Design With Dynamic Bias. 2 indexed citations

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