2026 Jeroen Ploeg: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	33	2961	2779	42	40	100	7163

Jeroen Ploeg publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeroen Ploeg sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 659+

This scientist: 100 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Jeroen Ploeg D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeroen Ploeg sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jeroen Ploeg is affiliated with Siemens in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and computer science, with a marked emphasis on automotive engineering and control and systems engineering. The scholar's work spans different aspects of autonomous vehicle technology, traffic control, and vehicular networks.

Key subfields of study for Jeroen Ploeg include:

Automotive Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

The main topics covered in their research encompass:

Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Traffic control and management
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems
Traffic and Road Safety
Vehicle emissions and performance
Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques

Jeroen Ploeg has published extensively in venues such as:

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
arXiv (Cornell University)
IFAC-PapersOnLine
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Several recent papers by this researcher include:

"Cooperative Driving of Automated Vehicles Using B-Splines for Trajectory Planning," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
"Towards an Ontology for Scenario Definition for the Assessment of Automated Vehicles: An Object-Oriented Framework," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
"Scenario Parameter Generation Method and Scenario Representativeness Metric for Scenario-Based Assessment of Automated Vehicles," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
"Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control of Heterogeneous Vehicle Platoons," 2020, IFAC-PapersOnLine
"Robust CACC in the Presence of Uncertain Delays," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Frequent co-authors of Jeroen Ploeg include:

Erwin de Gelder
Jan-Pieter Paardekooper
Olaf Op den Camp
Bart De Schutter
Henk Nijmeijer

Best Publications

String-Stable CACC Design and Experimental Validation: A Frequency-Domain Approach

Gerrit J L Naus;René P A Vugts;Jeroen Ploeg;Marinus J G van de Molengraft

984
Citations
Lp String Stability of Cascaded Systems: Application to Vehicle Platooning

Jeroen Ploeg;Nathan van de Wouw;Henk Nijmeijer

749
Citations
Design and experimental evaluation of cooperative adaptive cruise control

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

687
Citations
Controller Synthesis for String Stability of Vehicle Platoons

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

509
Citations
Cooperative adaptive cruise control: Network-aware analysis of string stability

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

474
Citations
Development of advanced driver assistance systems with vehicle hardware-in-the-loop simulations

OJ Gietelink;J Jeroen Ploeg;de B Bart Schutter;MH Verhaegen

375
Citations
Graceful Degradation of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

Jeroen Ploeg;Elham Semsar-Kazerooni;Guido Lijster;Nathan van de Wouw

276
Citations
Event-Triggered Control for String-Stable Vehicle Platooning

Victor S. Dolk;Jeroen Ploeg;W. P. Maurice H. Heemels

230
Citations
Evaluation of CACC string stability using SUMO, Simulink and OMNeT++

Chenxi Lei;Emiel Martijn van Eenennaam;Wouter Klein Wolterink;Jeroen Ploeg

181
Citations
Connect & Drive: design and evaluation of cooperative adaptive cruise control for congestion reduction

Jeroen Ploeg;Alex F. A. Serrarens;Geert J. Heijenk

164
Citations
Design and implementation of parameterized adaptive cruise control : an explicit model predictive control approach

Gjl Gerrit Naus;J Jeroen Ploeg;van de Mjg René Molengraft;Wpmh Maurice Heemels

159
Citations
The Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2016: boosting the introduction of cooperative automated vehicles

Cristofer Englund;Lei Chen;Jeroen Ploeg;Elham Semsar-Kazerooni

155
Citations
Cooperative adaptive cruise control, design and experiments

Gerrit Naus;Rene Vugts;Jeroen Ploeg;Rene van de Molengraft

146
Citations
Optimal control of wind power plants

M Maarten Steinbuch;WW de Boer;OH Okko Bosgra;Sawm Peeters

145
Citations
Impact of packet loss on CACC string stability performance

C. Lei;E. M. van Eenennaam;W. Klein Wolterink;G. Karagiannis

134
Citations
Consensus Control for Vehicular Platooning With Velocity Constraints

Jeroen C. Zegers;Elham Semsar-Kazerooni;Jeroen Ploeg;Nathan van de Wouw

119
Citations
Compensation of Communication Delays in a Cooperative ACC System

Haitao Xing;Jeroen Ploeg;Henk Nijmeijer

99
Citations
Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2011 Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge

Jeroen Ploeg;Steven Shladover;Henk Nijmeijer;Nathan van de Wouw

87
Citations
VEHIL: developing and testing intelligent vehicles

D.J. Verburg;A.C.M. van der Knaap;J. Ploeg

83
Citations
Cooperative Driving of Automated Vehicles Using B-Splines for Trajectory Planning

Robbin vanHoek;Jeroen Ploeg;Henk Nijmeijer

82
Citations
Explicit MPC design and performance evaluation of an ACC Stop-&-Go

G. Naus;R. van den Bleek;J. Ploeg;B. Scheepers

66
Citations
Towards On-the-Road Implementation of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

Gjl Gerrit Naus;Rpa René Vugts;J Jeroen Ploeg;van de Mjg René Molengraft

66
Citations
Development of a driver information and warning system with vehicle-hardware-in-the-loop simulations

OJ Gietelink;J Jeroen Ploeg;de B Bart Schutter;MH Verhaegen

65
Citations
Smith Predictor Compensating for Vehicle Actuator Delays in Cooperative ACC Systems

Haitao Xing;Jeroen Ploeg;Henk Nijmeijer

52
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Nijmeijer Eindhoven University of Technology

Nathan van de Wouw Eindhoven University of Technology

M Maarten Steinbuch Eindhoven University of Technology

Maurice Heemels Eindhoven University of Technology

Michel Verhaegen Delft University of Technology

B. De Schutter Delft University of Technology

Hans Hellendoorn Delft University of Technology

Steven E Shladover University of California, Berkeley

Vicente Milanés Renault (France)

External Links

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