| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Constrained model predictive control: Stability and optimality | Automatica | 2000 | 6,750 |
| 2 | Modeling by shortest data description | Automatica | 1978 | 4,818 |
| 3 | Generalized predictive control—Part I. The basic algorithm | Automatica | 1987 | 3,572 |
| 4 | Model predictive control: Theory and practice—A survey | Automatica | 1989 | 3,214 |
| 5 | Fault diagnosis in dynamic systems using analytical and knowledge-based redundancy | Automatica | 1990 | 3,159 |
| 6 | Time-delay systems: an overview of some recent advances and open problems | Automatica | 2003 | 2,944 |
| 7 | The explicit linear quadratic regulator for constrained systems | Automatica | 2002 | 2,616 |
| 8 | Control of systems integrating logic, dynamics, and constraints | Automatica | 1999 | 2,531 |
| 9 | The internal model principle of control theory | Automatica | 1976 | 2,416 |
| 10 | A survey of models, analysis tools and compensation methods for the control of machines with friction | Automatica | 1994 | 2,308 |
| 11 | Reciprocally convex approach to stability of systems with time-varying delays | Automatica | 2011 | 2,248 |
| 12 | Continuous finite-time control for robotic manipulators with terminal sliding mode | Automatica | 2005 | 2,178 |
| 13 | Robust constrained model predictive control using linear matrix inequalities | Automatica | 1996 | 2,137 |
| 14 | Process fault detection based on modeling and estimation methods—A survey | Automatica | 1984 | 2,116 |
| 15 | A survey of design methods for failure detection in dynamic systems | Automatica | 1976 | 2,087 |
| 16 | Barrier Lyapunov Functions for the control of output-constrained nonlinear systems | Automatica | 2009 | 2,061 |
| 17 | Robust exact differentiation via sliding mode technique | Automatica | 1998 | 1,964 |
| 18 | Wirtinger-based integral inequality: Application to time-delay systems | Automatica | 2013 | 1,883 |
| 19 | Non-singular terminal sliding mode control of rigid manipulators | Automatica | 2002 | 1,882 |
| 20 | Set invariance in control | Automatica | 1999 | 1,857 |
| 21 | Tracking control for multi-agent consensus with an active leader and variable topology | Automatica | 2006 | 1,749 |
| 22 | Nonlinear black-box modeling in system identification: a unified overview | Automatica | 1995 | 1,730 |
| 23 | A survey of multi-agent formation control | Automatica | 2015 | 1,730 |
| 24 | Model predictive heuristic control | Automatica | 1978 | 1,686 |
| 25 | Neural networks for control systems—A survey | Automatica | 1992 | 1,675 |
| 26 | N4SID: Subspace algorithms for the identification of combined deterministic-stochastic systems | Automatica | 1994 | 1,618 |
| 27 | Automatic tuning of simple regulators with specifications on phase and amplitude margins | Automatica | 1984 | 1,609 |
| 28 | Research on gain scheduling | Automatica | 2000 | 1,526 |
| 29 | Model predictive control: Recent developments and future promise | Automatica | 2014 | 1,503 |
| 30 | Bilateral teleoperation: An historical survey | Automatica | 2006 | 1,498 |
| 31 | On self tuning regulators | Automatica | 1973 | 1,484 |
| 32 | Ironies of automation | Automatica | 1983 | 1,441 |
| 33 | System identification—A survey | Automatica | 1971 | 1,344 |
| 34 | Mittag–Leffler stability of fractional order nonlinear dynamic systems | Automatica | 2009 | 1,330 |
| 35 | The complex structured singular value | Automatica | 1993 | 1,325 |
| 36 | Self-scheduled H∞ control of linear parameter-varying systems: a design example | Automatica | 1995 | 1,283 |
| 37 | Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems | Automatica | 2002 | 1,266 |
| 38 | Some necessary and sufficient conditions for second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems | Automatica | 2010 | 1,236 |
| 39 | A Quasi-Infinite Horizon Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Scheme with Guaranteed Stability∗∗This paper was not presented at any IFAC meeting. This paper was accepted for publication in revised form by Associate Editor W. Bequette under the direction of Editor Prof. S. Skogestad. | Automatica | 1998 | 1,228 |
| 40 | Sliding mode observers for fault detection and isolation | Automatica | 2000 | 1,219 |
| 41 | A new delay system approach to network-based control | Automatica | 2008 | 1,189 |
| 42 | Online actor–critic algorithm to solve the continuous-time infinite horizon optimal control problem | Automatica | 2010 | 1,153 |
| 43 | Robust model predictive control of constrained linear systems with bounded disturbances | Automatica | 2005 | 1,140 |
| 44 | All controllers for the general H∞ control problem: LMI existence conditions and state space formulas | Automatica | 1994 | 1,127 |
| 45 | Robust sampled-data stabilization of linear systems: an input delay approach | Automatica | 2004 | 1,117 |
| 46 | Adaptive motion control of rigid robots: A tutorial | Automatica | 1989 | 1,085 |
| 47 | Input-to-state stability for discrete-time nonlinear systems | Automatica | 2001 | 1,082 |
| 48 | Stability of extremum seeking feedback for general nonlinear dynamic systems | Automatica | 2000 | 1,070 |
| 49 | A linguistic self-organizing process controller | Automatica | 1979 | 1,051 |
| 50 | On Contraction Analysis for Non-linear Systems | Automatica | 1998 | 1,046 |
