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D-Index
67
Citations
40160
World Ranking
1044
National Ranking
442

Randal W. Beard 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 Randal W. Beard sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 330 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Randal W. Beard 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 Randal W. Beard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Randal W. Beard is primarily affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a strong emphasis on Engineering and Computer Science. The main fields of study include aerospace engineering, control and systems engineering, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas such as robotics and sensor-based localization, target tracking and data fusion in sensor networks, adaptive control of nonlinear systems, indoor and outdoor localization technologies, guidance and control systems, advanced vision and imaging, and aerospace and aviation technology.

Randal W. Beard has contributed to the academic community through numerous recent papers. Some notable publications include:

  • "Relative multiplicative extended Kalman filter for observable GPS-denied navigation" (2020), published in The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • "Relative navigation of autonomous GPS-degraded micro air vehicles" (2020), published in Autonomous Robots
  • "An iterative pose estimation algorithm based on epipolar geometry with application to multi-target tracking" (2020), published in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
  • "Pitch and Thrust Allocation for Full-Flight-Regime Control of Winged eVTOL UAVs" (2021), published in IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • "Encirclement of Moving Targets Using Noisy Range and Bearing Measurements" (2022), published in Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

The venues where Randal W. Beard frequently publishes reflect the multidisciplinary nature of their work. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • The International Journal of Robotics Research

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Mark E. Petersen, Jacob Johnson, Timothy W. McLain, Jacob P. Willis, and Joshua G. Mangelson. These coauthorships suggest active involvement in team-based research efforts addressing complex problems across control systems and autonomous navigation domains.

Best Publications

  • Consensus seeking in multiagent systems under dynamically changing interaction topologies

    Wei Ren;R.W. Beard

  • Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control

    Wei Ren;Randal W. Beard

  • Information consensus in multivehicle cooperative control

    Wei Ren;R.W. Beard;E.M. Atkins

  • A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination

    Wei Ren;R.W. Beard;E.M. Atkins

  • A coordination architecture for spacecraft formation control

    R.W. Beard;J. Lawton;F.Y. Hadaegh

  • A decentralized approach to formation maneuvers

    J.R.T. Lawton;R.W. Beard;B.J. Young

  • Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control: Theory and Applications

    Wei Ren;Randal W. Beard

  • Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice

    Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain

  • Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles

    R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain;M.A. Goodrich;E.P. Anderson

  • Decentralized Scheme for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure Approach

    Wei Ren;Randal W. Beard

  • Galerkin approximations of the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation

    Randal W. Beard;George N. Saridis;John T. Wen

  • Vector Field Path Following for Miniature Air Vehicles

    D.R. Nelson;D.B. Barber;T.W. McLain;R.W. Beard

  • Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles

    David W. Casbeer;Derek B. Kingston;Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain

  • Brief Synchronized multiple spacecraft rotations

    Jonathan R. Lawton;Randal W. Beard

  • Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs

    R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain;D.B. Nelson;D. Kingston

  • Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs

    D.W. Casbeer;R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain;Sai-Ming Li

  • Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Small Fixed-Wing UAVs

    Randal W. Beard;Derek B. Kingston;Morgan Quigley;Deryl Snyder

  • Formation feedback control for multiple spacecraft via virtual structures

    W. Ren;R.W. Beard

  • Multiple UAV cooperative search under collision avoidance and limited range communication constraints

    R.W. Beard;T.W. McLain

  • Coordination Variables, Coordination Functions, and Cooperative-Timing Missions

    Timothy W. McLain;Randal W. Beard

  • A decentralized scheme for spacecraft formation flying via the virtual structure approach

    Wei Ren;R.W. Beard

  • Decentralized Cooperative Aerial Surveillance Using Fixed-Wing Miniature UAVs Teams of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) can cooperate when their common objectives are defined and each vehicle has the information needed to cooperate, even when there are communications difficulties.

    Randal W. Beard;Timothy W. McLain;Derek B. Nelson;Derek Kingston

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy W. McLain
Timothy W. McLain Brigham Young University
Wei Ren
Wei Ren University of California, Riverside
Fred Y. Hadaegh
Fred Y. Hadaegh Jet Propulsion Lab
David W. Casbeer
David W. Casbeer United States Air Force Research Laboratory
John T. Wen
John T. Wen Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Michael A. Goodrich
Michael A. Goodrich Brigham Young University
Kimon P. Valavanis
Kimon P. Valavanis University of Denver
Karl F. Warnick
Karl F. Warnick Brigham Young University
Raman K. Mehra
Raman K. Mehra Scientific Systems Company, Inc.
Naira Hovakimyan
Naira Hovakimyan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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