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Netherlands
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
88
Citations
37084
World Ranking
125
National Ranking
1

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
88
Citations
36740
World Ranking
318
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2000 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and application of nonlinear control system design.

Overview

Henk Nijmeijer is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with specific expertise in control and systems engineering, automotive engineering, mechanical engineering, computer networks and communications, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their recent publications include the following works:

  • Coupled liquid crystalline oscillators in Huygens' synchrony, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Cooperative Driving of Automated Vehicles Using B-Splines for Trajectory Planning, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • A control strategy for merging a single vehicle into a platoon at highway on-ramps, 2022, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • Assessing the impact of cornering losses on the energy consumption of electric city buses, 2020, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Hybrid Integrator-Gain Systems: A Remedy for Overshoot Limitations in Linear Control?, 2020, IEEE Control Systems Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • A. Pogromsky (12 publications)
  • Igo Besselink (11 publications)
  • W.P.M.H. Heemels (10 publications)
  • Marcel Heertjes (9 publications)
  • Quentin Voortman (6 publications)

Common venues for their publications include:

  • IFAC-PapersOnLine (8 publications)
  • 2021 European Control Conference (ECC) (3 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2 publications)
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters (2 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2 publications)

Their research covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
  • Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Traffic Control and Management
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems

Henk Nijmeijer has contributed to book publications, including the title Dynamics, Control, and Synchronization of Nonlinear Systems, published by World Scientific in 2024.

Awards received by the scientist include:

  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2017
  • IEEE Fellow, 2000, for contributions to the theory and application of nonlinear control system design

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems

    Henk Nijmeijer;Arjan van der Schaft

  • Tracking control of mobile robots: a case study in backstepping

    Zhong-Ping Jiang;Henk Nijmeijer;Henk Nijmeijer

  • Dynamics and Bifurcations of Non-Smooth Mechanical Systems

    Remco I. Leine;Henk Nijmeijer

  • An observer looks at synchronization

    H. Nijmeijer;I.M.Y. Mareels

  • Lp String Stability of Cascaded Systems: Application to Vehicle Platooning

    Jeroen Ploeg;Nathan van de Wouw;Henk Nijmeijer

  • Design and experimental evaluation of cooperative adaptive cruise control

    Jeroen Ploeg;Bart T. M. Scheepers;Ellen van Nunen;Nathan van de Wouw

  • A recursive technique for tracking control of nonholonomic systems in chained form

    Zhong-Ping Jiang;H. Nijmeijer

  • A passivity approach to controller-observer design for robots

    H. Berghuis;H. Nijmeijer

  • Controller Synthesis for String Stability of Vehicle Platoons

    Jeroen Ploeg;Dipan P. Shukla;Nathan van de Wouw;Henk Nijmeijer

  • Tracking control of an underactuated ship

    E. Lefeber;K.Y. Pettersen;H. Nijmeijer

  • Cooperative adaptive cruise control: Network-aware analysis of string stability

    S Sinan Öncü;J Jeroen Ploeg;van de N Nathan Wouw;H Henk Nijmeijer

  • Stability of Networked Control Systems With Uncertain Time-Varying Delays

    M.B.G. Cloosterman;N. van de Wouw;W.P.M.H. Heemels;H. Nijmeijer

  • Prediction of regenerative chatter by modelling and analysis of high-speed milling

    Rph Ronald Faassen;van de N Nathan Wouw;Jaj Han Oosterling;H Henk Nijmeijer

  • Controller synthesis for networked control systems

    M. B. G. Cloosterman;L. Hetel;N. van de Wouw;W. P. M. H. Heemels

  • On self-synchronization and controlled synchronization

    I. I. Blekhman;A. L. Fradkov;H. Nijmeijer;A. Yu. Pogromsky

  • Convergent dynamics, a tribute to Boris Pavlovich Demidovich

    A. Pavlov;A.Y. Pogromsky;N. van de Wouw;H. Nijmeijer

  • New directions in nonlinear observer design

    Henk Nijmeijer;T.I. Fossen

  • Uniform Output Regulation of Nonlinear Systems: A Convergent Dynamics Approach

    A.V. Pavlov;N. van de Wouw;H. Nijmeijer

  • Mutual synchronization of robots via estimated state feedback: a cooperative approach

    A. Rodriguez-Angeles;H. Nijmeijer

  • A comparison of model reduction techniques from structural dynamics, numerical mathematics and systems and control

    B Bart Besselink;U Tabak;A Agnieszka Lutowska;van de N Nathan Wouw

  • Underactuated ship tracking control: Theory and experiments

    KY Pettersen;H Henk Nijmeijer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan van de Wouw
Nathan van de Wouw Eindhoven University of Technology
Jeroen Ploeg
Jeroen Ploeg Siemens (Netherlands)
Maurice Heemels
Maurice Heemels Eindhoven University of Technology
Kristin Y. Pettersen
Kristin Y. Pettersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Zhong-Ping Jiang
Zhong-Ping Jiang New York University
Wim Michiels
Wim Michiels KU Leuven
Antonio Loria
Antonio Loria Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alexander L. Fradkov
Alexander L. Fradkov Saint Petersburg State University
Mircea Lazar
Mircea Lazar Eindhoven University of Technology
M Maarten Steinbuch
M Maarten Steinbuch Eindhoven University of Technology

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