Weichao Sun

8.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
135 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Weichao Sun is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Weichao Sun has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 60 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 45 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Weichao Sun's work include Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems (42 papers), Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (40 papers) and Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids (37 papers). Weichao Sun is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems (42 papers), Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (40 papers) and Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids (37 papers). Weichao Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Türkiye. Weichao Sun's co-authors include Huijun Gao, Huihui Pan, Okyay Kaynak, Xingjian Jing, Jianyong Yao, Zhengli Zhao, Bin Yao, Peng Shi, Zheng Chen and Yanbin Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Weichao Sun

129 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Saturated Adaptive Robust Control for Active Suspension Systems

2012 348 citations Weichao Sun, Huijun Gao et al. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics profile →
Finite Frequency $H_{\infty }$ Control for Vehicle Active Suspension Systems

2010 348 citations Weichao Sun, Huijun Gao et al. profile →
Adaptive Backstepping Control for Active Suspension Systems With Hard Constraints

2012 346 citations Weichao Sun, Huijun Gao et al. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics profile →
Robust Sampled-Data $H_{\infty}$ Control for Vehicle Active Suspension Systems

2009 330 citations Huijun Gao, Weichao Sun et al. profile →
Deep Dual-Resolution Networks for Real-Time and Accurate Semantic Segmentation of Traffic Scenes

2022 239 citations Huihui Pan, Weichao Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weichao Sun China	42	3.7k	2.8k	2.3k	1.9k	496	135	6.5k
J. Christian Gerdes United States	55	5.8k 1.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	5.9k 3.1×	662 1.3×	192	10.0k
Jan Swevers Belgium	46	6.3k 1.7×	3.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	890 0.5×	209 0.4×	389	8.2k
Xingjian Jing Hong Kong	55	3.8k 1.0×	3.8k 1.4×	6.6k 2.9×	863 0.4×	753 1.5×	263	11.2k
Peter Eberhard Germany	31	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	364 0.2×	185 0.4×	331	4.7k
Ning Sun China	49	5.9k 1.6×	2.2k 0.8×	311 0.1×	1.4k 0.7×	334 0.7×	223	7.0k
Guangjun Liu Canada	38	3.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	885 0.4×	408 0.2×	348 0.7×	289	5.7k
Yongchun Fang China	56	7.7k 2.1×	2.7k 1.0×	345 0.2×	1.7k 0.9×	560 1.1×	428	10.3k
Carlos Canudas de Wit France	43	10.4k 2.8×	6.3k 2.3×	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	719 1.4×	242	14.1k
Nathan van de Wouw Netherlands	49	7.6k 2.0×	1.8k 0.7×	924 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 4.2×	343	10.1k
Jingang Yi United States	37	1.3k 0.4×	949 0.3×	664 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	241 0.5×	280	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weichao Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Jue, et al.. (2025). Coupled Control of Preview Active Suspension and Longitudinal Dynamics for Autonomous Vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 55(7). 4656–4669. 3 indexed citations

Tian, Zhirui, et al.. (2025). EDformer family: End-to-end multi-task load forecasting frameworks for day-ahead economic dispatch. Applied Energy. 383. 125319–125319. 3 indexed citations

Lian, Lu, et al.. (2025). Cable-Stayed Bridge Model Updating Using a Novel Approach for Deflection Influence Line Identification: Theoretical Basis and Field Validation. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Shuicheng, et al.. (2025). 3D face parsing based on 2D CPFNet: conformal parameterized face parsing network. Machine Vision and Applications. 36(2). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jinglong, Yanbin Liu, Hui Pan, Weichao Sun, & Huijun Gao. (2025). Adaptive robust synchronous tracking control of dual-drive gantry stages via the fully actuated system approach. Control Engineering Practice. 165. 106610–106610.

Liu, Zhiyuan, Yulin Si, & Weichao Sun. (2023). Ride comfort oriented integrated design of preview active suspension control and longitudinal velocity planning. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 208. 110992–110992. 22 indexed citations

Sun, Weichao, et al.. (2023). A sensor fault detection, isolation, and estimation method for intelligent vehicles. Control Engineering Practice. 139. 105620–105620. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Weichao, et al.. (2023). Passivity based hierarchical multi-task tracking control for redundant manipulators with uncertainties. Automatica. 155. 111159–111159. 41 indexed citations

Cui, Yukang, et al.. (2023). How to Beat Speed With Quantity: A Many-to-One Multi-Vehicle Racing Framework. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(10). 14252–14264. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Xinghu, et al.. (2023). Composite Adaptive Synchronous Control of Dual-Drive Gantry Stage With Load Movement. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. 4. 63–74. 33 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiuyan, et al.. (2023). Development and application of multi-field coupled high-pressure triaxial apparatus for soil. Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering. 11(3). 308–316. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Weichao, et al.. (2022). Master-Slave Synchronous Control of Dual-Drive Gantry Stage With Cogging Force Compensation. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 53(1). 216–225. 96 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanbin, Weichao Sun, Concettina Buccella, & Carlo Cecati. (2022). Robust Control of Dual-Linear-Motor-Driven Gantry Stage for Coordinated Contouring Tasks Based on Feed Velocity. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 70(6). 6229–6238. 16 indexed citations

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Sun, Weichao, et al.. (2022). RBF Neural Network-Based Adaptive Robust Synchronization Control of Dual Drive Gantry Stage With Rotational Coupling Dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 20(2). 1059–1068. 35 indexed citations

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Pan, Huihui, et al.. (2021). Deep Learning Based Data Fusion for Sensor Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Autonomous Vehicles. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 34(1). 24 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, Fanghao Huang, Junhui Zhang, et al.. (2019). RBFNN-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control Design for Delayed Nonlinear Multilateral Telerobotic System With Cooperative Manipulation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 16(2). 1236–1247. 142 indexed citations

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Chen, Zheng, Fanghao Huang, Weichao Sun, Jason Gu, & Bin Yao. (2019). RBF-Neural-Network-Based Adaptive Robust Control for Nonlinear Bilateral Teleoperation Manipulators With Uncertainty and Time Delay. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 25(2). 906–918. 192 indexed citations

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Shi, Shuang, Zhongyang Fei, Weichao Sun, & Xuebo Yang. (2017). Stabilization of 2-D Switched Systems With All Modes Unstable via Switching Signal Regulation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 63(3). 857–863. 56 indexed citations

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Sun, Guanghui, et al.. (2016). Fault‐Tolerant Finite Frequency H_∞ Control for Uncertain Mechanical System with Input Delay and Constraint. Asian Journal of Control. 19(2). 765–780. 16 indexed citations

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Gao, Huijun, Weichao Sun, Shen Yin, & Okyay Kaynak. (2013). Stability control for lateral vehicle motion with uncertain parameters and external nonlinearities. Chinese Control Conference. 2733–2738. 4 indexed citations

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