2026 Ricardo G. Sanfelice: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	37	5018	4816	1741	1626	323	10357

Overview

Ricardo G. Sanfelice is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily spans engineering and computer science, with a specialized focus on control and systems engineering, where they have contributed extensively.

Their body of work covers various subfields, including:

Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Networks and Communications
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Topics frequently addressed in their research involve:

Advanced Control Systems Optimization
Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
Control Systems and Identification
Fault Detection and Control Systems
Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems
Robotic Path Planning Algorithms

Ricardo G. Sanfelice has authored various papers published in key venues, including a strong presence in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica, and has also contributed to conferences and repositories like IFAC-PapersOnLine and arXiv. Select recent publications include:

Robust Coordinated Hybrid Source Seeking With Obstacle Avoidance in Multivehicle Autonomous Systems, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Explaining the "Mystery" of Periodicity in Inter-Transmission Times in Two-Dimensional Event-Triggered Controlled Systems, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Observer design for hybrid dynamical systems with approximately known jump times, 2022, Automatica
Forward Invariance of Sets for Hybrid Dynamical Systems (Part II), 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Rigid-Body Pose Hybrid Control Using Dual Quaternions: Global Asymptotic Stabilization and Robustness, 2020, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

Their frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IFAC-PapersOnLine
Automatica
2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their career, with frequent coauthors including Nan Wang, Mohamed Maghenem, Axton Isaly, Warren E. Dixon, and Álvaro A. Cárdenas. These partnerships underline a cooperative approach to advancing research within their areas of expertise.

In addition to journal articles, Ricardo Sanfelice has contributed to book publications. These include works published by Princeton University Press and Systems & Control, such as Hybrid Feedback Control (2021) and Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems (2023).

Best Publications

Hybrid dynamical systems

Rafal Goebel;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew Teel

3020
Citations
Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Modeling, Stability, and Robustness

Rafal Goebel;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew R. Teel

1086
Citations
Quaternion-Based Hybrid Control for Robust Global Attitude Tracking

C. G. Mayhew;R. G. Sanfelice;A. R. Teel

453
Citations
Invariance Principles for Hybrid Systems With Connections to Detectability and Asymptotic Stability

R.G. Sanfelice;R. Goebel;A.R. Teel

377
Citations
Hybrid systems: Generalized solutions and robust stability

Rafal Goebel;Joao Hespanha;Andrew R. Teel;Chaohong Cai

248
Citations
Optimal control of Mixed Logical Dynamical systems with Linear Temporal Logic specifications

S. Karaman;R.G. Sanfelice;E. Frazzoli

199
Citations
A toolbox for simulation of hybrid systems in matlab/simulink: hybrid equations (HyEQ) toolbox

Ricardo Sanfelice;David Copp;Pablo Nanez

175
Citations
On the performance of high-gain observers with gain adaptation under measurement noise

Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Laurent Praly

167
Citations
Robust Global Trajectory Tracking for Underactuated VTOL Aerial Vehicles Using Inner-Outer Loop Control Paradigms

Roberto Naldi;Michele Furci;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Lorenzo Marconi

145
Citations
Robust Global Stabilization of the DC-DC Boost Converter via Hybrid Control

Thomas A. F. Theunisse;Jun Chai;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;W. P. Maurice H. Heemels

115
Citations
State estimation of linear systems in the presence of sporadic measurements

Francesco Ferrante;Frédéric Gouaisbaut;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Sophie Tarbouriech

113
Citations
Robust global asymptotic attitude stabilization of a rigid body by quaternion-based hybrid feedback

Christopher G. Mayhew;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew R. Teel

109
Citations
Robust hybrid controllers for continuous-time systems with applications to obstacle avoidance and regulation to disconnected set of points

R.G. Sanfelice;M.J. Messina;S. Emre Tuna;A.R. Teel

102
Citations
On quaternion-based attitude control and the unwinding phenomenon

Christopher G. Mayhew;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew R. Teel

102
Citations
GENERALIZED SOLUTIONS TO HYBRID DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Rafal Goebel;Andrew R. Teel

99
Citations
On Path-Lifting Mechanisms and Unwinding in Quaternion-Based Attitude Control

Christopher G. Mayhew;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew R. Teel

98
Citations
Invariance principles for switching systems via hybrid systems techniques

Rafal Goebel;Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew R. Teel

98
Citations
On singular perturbations due to fast actuators in hybrid control systems

Ricardo G. Sanfelice;Andrew R. Teel

96
Citations
Quaternion-Based Hybrid Feedback for Robust Global Attitude Synchronization

C. G. Mayhew;R. G. Sanfelice;Jansen Sheng;M. Arcak

94
Citations
Convergence of Nonlinear Observers on $\BBR^{n}$ With a Riemannian Metric (Part I)

Unknown

58
Citations
Hybrid Feedback Control

Ricardo G. Sanfelice

27
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew R. Teel University of California, Santa Barbara

Carlos Silvestre University of Macau

Emilio Frazzoli ETH Zurich

Sophie Tarbouriech Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems

Laurent Praly Mines ParisTech

Lorenzo Marconi University of Bologna

Christophe Prieur Grenoble Alpes University

Maurice Heemels Eindhoven University of Technology

Warren E. Dixon University of Florida

Murat Arcak University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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