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A.J. van der Schaft

A.J. van der Schaft

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Netherlands
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
66
Citations
26379
World Ranking
1114
National Ranking
10

A.J. van der Schaft 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 A.J. van der Schaft sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 395 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.

A.J. van der Schaft 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 A.J. van der Schaft sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory of nonlinear systems.

Overview

A.J. van der Schaft is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where their research spans multiple domains in engineering and computer science. Their primary research fields include engineering, with 120 publications, and computer science with 41 works. Within these fields, specific subfields of study include control and systems engineering, molecular biology, computational theory and mathematics, electrical and electronic engineering, and numerical analysis.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics such as control and stability of dynamical systems, ATP synthase and ATPases research, numerical methods for differential equations, advanced control systems optimization, modeling and simulation systems, microgrid control and optimization, and formal methods in verification.

The publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • "Twenty years of distributed port-Hamiltonian systems: a literature review," 2020, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information
  • "Differential-algebraic systems with dissipative Hamiltonian structure," 2023, Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems
  • "A family of virtual contraction based controllers for tracking of flexible-joints port-Hamiltonian robots: Theory and experiments," 2020, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
  • "Port-Hamiltonian formulation of nonlinear electrical circuits," 2020, Journal of Geometry and Physics
  • "Stabilization of Port-Hamiltonian Systems Based on Shifted Passivity via Feedback," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Bart Besselink, Jacquelien M.A. Scherpen, Claudio De Persis, Volker Mehrmann, and Mark Jeeninga.

Their works have appeared in notable publication venues, with multiple contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Automatica, and IEEE Control Systems.

A.J. van der Schaft has also authored a book titled A Course on Optimal Control published by Springer Nature in 2023.

The scientist has been recognized with awards including being named an IEEE Fellow in 2002 for contributions to the theory of nonlinear systems and becoming a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • L2-Gain and Passivity Techniques in Nonlinear Control

    A. J. Van der Schaft

  • L/sub 2/-gain analysis of nonlinear systems and nonlinear state-feedback H/sub infinity / control

    A.J. van der Schaft

  • Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems

    Romeo Ortega;Arjan Van Der Schaft;Bernhard Maschke;Gerardo Escobar

  • Putting energy back in control

    R. Ortega;A.J. Van Der Schaft;I. Mareels;B. Maschke

  • Port-Hamiltonian Systems Theory: An Introductory Overview

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  • Dynamics and control of a class of underactuated mechanical systems

    M. Reyhanoglu;A. van der Schaft;N.H. Mcclamroch;I. Kolmanovsky

  • Hamiltonian formulation of distributed-parameter systems with boundary energy flow

    A.J. van der Schaft;B.M.J. Maschke

  • On a state space approach to nonlinear H ∞ control

    A. J. van der Schaft

  • Port-controlled Hamiltonian systems : modelling origins and systemtheoretic properties

    B.M. Maschke;A.J. van der Schaft

  • Energy-based Lyapunov functions for forced Hamiltonian systems with dissipation

    B. Maschke;R. Ortega;A.J. Van Der Schaft

  • Control by Interconnection and Standard Passivity-Based Control of Port-Hamiltonian Systems

    R. Ortega;A. van der Schaft;F. Castanos;A. Astolfi

  • Complementarity modeling of hybrid systems

    A.J. van der Schaft;J.M. Schumacher

  • On Representations and Integrability of Mathematical Structures in Energy-Conserving Physical Systems

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  • Characterization of well-posedness of piecewise-linear systems

    J. Imura;A. van der Schaft

  • An intrinsic Hamiltonian formulation of network dynamics: Non-standard Poisson structures and gyrators

    B.M. Maschke;A.J. van der Schaft;P.C. Breedveld

  • Equivalence of dynamical systems by bisimulation

    A.J. van der Schaft

  • Variational and Hamiltonian Control Systems

    P E. Crouch;A. J. Van der Schaft

  • Nonlinear State Space H ∞ Control Theory

    A. J. van der Schaft

  • Nonlinear H ∞ almost disturbance decoupling

    R. Marino;W. Respondek;A. J. van der Schaft;P. Tomei

  • Sampled data systems passivity and discrete port-Hamiltonian systems

    S. Stramigioli;C. Secchi;A.J. van der Schaft;C. Fantuzzi

  • An intrinsic Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics of LC-circuits

    B.M. Maschke;A.J. van der Schaft;P.C. Breedveld

  • The complementary-slackness class of hybrid systems

    van der Arjan Schaft;J.M. Schumacher

  • Energy-shaping of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems by interconnection

    R. Ortega;A. van der Schaft;B. Maschke;G. Escobar

  • Port-Hamiltonian Systems on Graphs

    A. J. van der Schaft;Bernhard Maschke

  • Nonlinear systems analysis: M. Vidyasagar

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Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Schumacher
Johannes Schumacher University of Amsterdam
Maurice Heemels
Maurice Heemels Eindhoven University of Technology
Romeo Ortega
Romeo Ortega Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Claudio Melchiorri
Claudio Melchiorri University of Bologna
Stefano Stramigioli
Stefano Stramigioli University of Twente
Joseph A. Ball
Joseph A. Ball Virginia Tech
Cristian Secchi
Cristian Secchi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Cesare Fantuzzi
Cesare Fantuzzi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Mahmut Reyhanoglu
Mahmut Reyhanoglu University of North Carolina at Asheville

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