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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
109
Citations
66384
World Ranking
105
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to distributed coordination and control of multi-agent systems

Overview

Wei Ren is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of Wei Ren's work include:

  • Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Petri Nets in System Modeling
  • Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization
  • Formal Methods in Verification

Wei Ren has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Automatica
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine

Recent papers by Wei Ren include:

  • "Event-Triggered Tracking Control of Networked Multiagent Systems," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Stability of multi-dimensional switched systems with an application to open multi-agent systems," 2022, Automatica
  • "Improved hybrid A* path planning method for spherical mobile robot based on pendulum," 2021, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
  • "Multi-Terrain Velocity Control of the Spherical Robot by Online Obtaining the Uncertainties in the Dynamics," 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Current-Constrained Adaptive Robust Control for Uncertain PMSM Drive Systems: Theory and Experimentation," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

Wei Ren collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Xi-Ming Sun
  • Junlin Xiong
  • Dimos V. Dimarogonas
  • Raphaël M. Jungers
  • Zhuo-Rui Pan

Wei Ren was awarded the IEEE Fellow designation in 2016 for contributions to distributed coordination and control of multi-agent systems.

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

  • An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-Agent Coordination

    Yongcan Cao;Wenwu Yu;Wei Ren;Guanrong Chen

  • On Consensus Algorithms for Double-Integrator Dynamics

    Wei Ren

  • A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination

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

  • Distributed multi‐vehicle coordinated control via local information exchange

    Wei Ren;Ella Atkins

  • Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks

    Wei Ren;Yongcan Cao

  • Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks: Emergent Problems, Models, and Issues

    Wei Ren;Yongcan Cao

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

    Wei Ren;Randal W. Beard

  • Brief paper: Distributed finite-time attitude containment control for multiple rigid bodies

    Ziyang Meng;Wei Ren;Zheng You

  • Designing Fully Distributed Consensus Protocols for Linear Multi-Agent Systems With Directed Graphs

    Zhongkui Li;Guanghui Wen;Zhisheng Duan;Wei Ren

  • Consensus strategies for cooperative control of vehicle formations

    W. Ren

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

    Wei Ren;Randal W. Beard

  • Multi-vehicle consensus with a time-varying reference state

    Wei Ren

  • Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems With General Linear and Lipschitz Nonlinear Dynamics Using Distributed Adaptive Protocols

    Zhongkui Li;Wei Ren;Xiangdong Liu;Mengyin Fu

  • Distributed coordination architecture for multi-robot formation control

    Wei Ren;Nathan Sorensen

  • Brief paper: Second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems with sampled position data

    Wenwu Yu;Wei Xing Zheng;Guanrong Chen;Wei Ren

  • Distributed consensus of linear multi-agent systems with adaptive dynamic protocols

    Zhongkui Li;Wei Ren;Xiangdong Liu;Lihua Xie

  • Brief paper: Distributed containment control for Lagrangian networks with parametric uncertainties under a directed graph

    Jie Mei;Wei Ren;Guangfu Ma

  • Distributed Coordinated Tracking With Reduced Interaction via a Variable Structure Approach

    Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

Frequent Co-Authors

Randal W. Beard
Randal W. Beard Brigham Young University
Guanrong Chen
Guanrong Chen City University of Hong Kong
Zhongkui Li
Zhongkui Li Peking University
Wenwu Yu
Wenwu Yu Southeast University
YangQuan Chen
YangQuan Chen University of California, Merced
Yongduan Song
Yongduan Song Chongqing University
Zongli Lin
Zongli Lin University of Virginia
Chien Chern Cheah
Chien Chern Cheah Nanyang Technological University
Weihua Gui
Weihua Gui Central South University
Long Cheng
Long Cheng Chinese Academy of Sciences

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