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D-Index
65
Citations
20316
World Ranking
1192
National Ranking
492

Aaron D. Ames publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aaron D. Ames sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 396 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Aaron D. Ames D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aaron D. Ames sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Aaron D. Ames is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has a significant body of work spanning multiple fields of study. Their research portfolio includes extensive contributions in Engineering and Computer Science, with particular emphasis on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and Automotive Engineering.

The main topics of Ames's research encompass Advanced Control Systems Optimization, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Formal Methods in Verification, Fault Detection and Control Systems, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, Real-time Simulation and Control Systems, and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms.

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope and variety of their work:

  • Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces, 2020, Science Robotics
  • Guaranteed Obstacle Avoidance for Multi-Robot Operations With Limited Actuation: A Control Barrier Function Approach, 2020, IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Comparative Analysis of Control Barrier Functions and Artificial Potential Fields for Obstacle Avoidance, 2021, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • A review of current state-of-the-art control methods for lower-limb powered prostheses, 2023, Annual Reviews in Control
  • Control Barrier Functions and Input-to-State Safety With Application to Automated Vehicles, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Ames has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Tamás G. Molnár, Ugo Rosolia, Yisong Yue, Andrew Singletary, and Noel Csomay-Shanklin, reflecting a range of coauthorships across numerous studies.

Their work is published in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and key IEEE conferences like the 60th and 61st Conference on Decision and Control.

Best Publications

  • Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical Systems

    Aaron D. Ames;Xiangru Xu;Jessy W. Grizzle;Paulo Tabuada

  • Control Barrier Functions: Theory and Applications

    Aaron D. Ames;Samuel Coogan;Magnus Egerstedt;Gennaro Notomista

  • Control barrier function based quadratic programs with application to adaptive cruise control

    Aaron D. Ames;Jessy W. Grizzle;Paulo Tabuada

  • Safety Barrier Certificates for Collisions-Free Multirobot Systems

    Li Wang;Aaron D. Ames;Magnus Egerstedt

  • Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces

    You Yu;Joanna M. Nassar;Changhao Xu;Jihong Min

  • Robustness of Control Barrier Functions for Safety Critical Control

    Xiangru Xu;Paulo Tabuada;Jessy W. Grizzle;Aaron D. Ames

  • Rapidly Exponentially Stabilizing Control Lyapunov Functions and Hybrid Zero Dynamics

    Aaron D. Ames;Kevin Galloway;Koushil Sreenath;Jessy W. Grizzle

  • The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed

    Daniel Pickem;Paul Glotfelter;Li Wang;Mark Mote

  • Models, feedback control, and open problems of 3D bipedal robotic walking

    Jessy W. Grizzle;Christine Chevallereau;Ryan W. Sinnet;Aaron D. Ames

  • Valkyrie: NASA's First Bipedal Humanoid Robot

    Nicolaus A. Radford;Philip Strawser;Kimberly Hambuchen;Joshua S. Mehling

  • Input-to-State Safety with Control Barrier Functions

    Shishir Kolathaya;Aaron D. Ames

  • Human-Inspired Control of Bipedal Walking Robots

    Aaron D. Ames

  • Control Barrier Certificates for Safe Swarm Behavior

    Urs Borrmann;Li Wang;Aaron D. Ames;Magnus B. Egerstedt

  • 3D dynamic walking with underactuated humanoid robots: A direct collocation framework for optimizing hybrid zero dynamics

    Ayonga Hereid;Eric A. Cousineau;Christian M. Hubicki;Aaron D. Ames

  • Control barrier function based quadratic programs with application to bipedal robotic walking

    Shao-Chen Hsu;Xiangru Xu;Aaron D. Ames

  • Correctness Guarantees for the Composition of Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control

    Xiangru Xu;Jessy W. Grizzle;Paulo Tabuada;Aaron D. Ames

  • Adaptive Safety with Control Barrier Functions

    Andrew J. Taylor;Aaron D. Ames

  • Torque Saturation in Bipedal Robotic Walking Through Control Lyapunov Function-Based Quadratic Programs

    Kevin Galloway;Koushil Sreenath;Aaron D. Ames;Jessy W. Grizzle

  • Correct-by-Construction Adaptive Cruise Control: Two Approaches

    Petter Nilsson;Omar Hussien;Ayca Balkan;Yuxiao Chen

  • 3D Bipedal Robotic Walking: Models, Feedback Control, and Open Problems

    J.W. Grizzle;Christine Chevallereau;Aaron D. Ames;Ryan W. Sinnet

  • Is there life after Zeno? Taking executions past the breaking (Zeno) point

    A.D. Ames;Haiyang Zheng;R.D. Gregg;S. Sastry

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessy W. Grizzle
Jessy W. Grizzle University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paulo Tabuada
Paulo Tabuada University of California, Los Angeles
Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley
Magnus Egerstedt
Magnus Egerstedt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Koushil Sreenath
Koushil Sreenath University of California, Berkeley
Yisong Yue
Yisong Yue California Institute of Technology
C. Karen Liu
C. Karen Liu Stanford University
Daniel I. Goldman
Daniel I. Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray California Institute of Technology
Walid Taha
Walid Taha Halmstad University

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