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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
59
Citations
13227
World Ranking
728
National Ranking
315

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
59
Citations
13514
World Ranking
1745
National Ranking
698

Naira Hovakimyan 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 Naira Hovakimyan sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 530 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Naira Hovakimyan 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 Naira Hovakimyan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to control with applications to aerospace and robotic systems

Overview

Naira Hovakimyan is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's key research topics include Advanced Control Systems Optimization, Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems, Fault Detection and Control Systems, Control Systems and Identification, and Guidance and Control Systems.

Frequent co-authors in their work consist of Petros G. Voulgaris, Aditya Gahlawat, Hunmin Kim, Lui Sha, and Pan Zhao.

Publications by Naira Hovakimyan have appeared in multiple venues, notably including arXiv (Cornell University) with over 100 publications, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, and Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Modeling yield response to crop management using convolutional neural networks, 2020, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Novel Stealthy Attack and Defense Strategies for Networked Control Systems, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Adaptive control for linear parameter-varying systems with application to a VTOL aircraft, 2021, Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Optimizing Nitrogen Management with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Crop Simulations, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
  • Optimal Multivehicle Motion Planning Using Bernstein Approximants, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Naira Hovakimyan was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2018 for contributions to control with applications to aerospace and robotic systems.

Best Publications

  • Adaptive output feedback control of nonlinear systems using neural networks

    Anthony J. Calise;Naira Hovakimyan;Moshe Idan

  • L1 adaptive control theory : guaranteed robustness with fast adaptation

    Naira Hovakimyan;Chengyu Cao

  • Design and Analysis of a Novel ${\cal L}_1$ Adaptive Control Architecture With Guaranteed Transient Performance

    Chengyu Cao;N. Hovakimyan

  • Adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems using single-hidden-layer neural networks

    N. Hovakimyan;F. Nardi;A. Calise;Nakwan Kim

  • Design and Analysis of a Novel L1 Adaptive Controller, Part I: Control Signal and Asymptotic Stability

    Chengyu Cao;N. Hovakimyan

  • $\mathcal {L}_1$ Adaptive Control for Safety-Critical Systems

    Naira Hovakimyan;Chengyu Cao;Evgeny Kharisov;Enric Xargay

  • Agriculture-Vision: A Large Aerial Image Database for Agricultural Pattern Analysis

    Mang Tik Chiu;Xingqian Xu;Yunchao Wei;Zilong Huang

  • Design and Analysis of a Novel L1 Adaptive Controller, Part II: Guaranteed Transient Performance

    Chengyu Cao;N. Hovakimyan

  • Path Following for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using L1 Adaptive Augmentation of Commercial Autopilots

    Isaac Kaminer;Antonio Pascoal;Enric Xargay;Naira Hovakimyan

  • Dynamic inversion for nonaffine-in-control systems via time-scale separation: part I

    N. Hovakimyan;E. Lavretsky;A.J. Sasane

  • Neural Network Adaptive Control for a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Dynamical Systems With Asymptotic Stability Guarantees

    T. Hayakawa;W.M. Haddad;N. Hovakimyan

  • Experimental results on adaptive output feedback control using a laboratory model helicopter

    A.T. Kutay;A.J. Calise;M. Idan;N. Hovakimyan

  • Stability Margins of ${\cal L}_{1}$ Adaptive Control Architecture

    Chengyu Cao;N. Hovakimyan

  • L(sub 1) Adaptive Control Design for NASA AirSTAR Flight Test Vehicle

    Irene M. Gregory;Chengyu Cao;Enric Xargay;Naira Hovakimyan

  • L1 Adaptive Output-Feedback Controller for Non-Strictly-Positive-Real Reference Systems: Missile Longitudinal Autopilot Design

    Chengyu Cao;Naira Hovakimyan

  • Coordinated decentralized adaptive output feedback control of interconnected systems

    N. Hovakimyan;E. Lavretsky;Bong-Jun Yang;A.J. Calise

  • ${\cal L}_1$ Adaptive Output Feedback Controller for Systems of Unknown Dimension

    Chengyu Cao;N. Hovakimyan

  • L1 adaptive control augmentation system for the X-48B Aircraft

    Tyler Leman;Enric Xargay;Geir E Dullerud;Naira Hovakimyan

  • Adaptive control of flight: theory, applications, and open problems

    K.A. Wise;E. Lavretsky;N. Hovakimyan

  • Guaranteed Transient Performance with L1 Adaptive Controller for Systems with Unknown Time-varying Parameters and Bounded Disturbances: Part I

    Chengyu Cao;N. Hovakimyan

  • Design and Analysis of a Novel $\mathcal{L}_1$ Adaptive Control Architecture with Guaranteed Transient Performance

    Chengyu Cao;Naira Hovakimyan

Frequent Co-Authors

Chengyu Cao
Chengyu Cao University of Connecticut
Isaac Kaminer
Isaac Kaminer Naval Postgraduate School
Anthony J. Calise
Anthony J. Calise Georgia Institute of Technology
Eugene Lavretsky
Eugene Lavretsky Boeing (United States)
Antonio M. Pascoal
Antonio M. Pascoal Instituto Superior Técnico
Tamer Basar
Tamer Basar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lui Sha
Lui Sha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wassim M. Haddad
Wassim M. Haddad Georgia Institute of Technology
Dusan M. Stipanovic
Dusan M. Stipanovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yunchao Wei
Yunchao Wei Beijing Jiaotong University

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