2026 Yongcan Cao: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	40	7146	6901	1939	1798	141	14530

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Engineering and Technology

7146

6901

1939

1798

141

14530

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

14530

World Ranking

7146

National Ranking

1939

Overview

Yongcan Cao is affiliated with The University of Texas at San Antonio in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, particularly focusing on aerospace and robotics.

The primary fields of study for Yongcan Cao include:

Computer Science
Engineering

Their work extends to several subfields, such as:

Aerospace Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications
Control and Systems Engineering

The main research topics covered in Cao's publications consist of:

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Guidance and Control Systems
Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
Robot Manipulation and Learning
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

Yongcan Cao has authored several recent papers, including:

"Human-Guided Robot Behavior Learning: A GAN-Assisted Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach" (2021), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Relational Maneuvering of Leader-Follower Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Flexible Formation" (2024), published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
"3-D Nonlinear Guidance Law for Target Circumnavigation" (2022), published in IEEE Control Systems Letters
"Three-Dimensional Autonomous Guidance for Enclosing a Stationary Target Within Arbitrary Smooth Geometrical Shapes" (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
"Nonlinear Guidance Law for Target Enclosing with Arbitrary Smooth Shapes" (2022), published in Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

The venues where Cao frequently publishes are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum
Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Yongcan Cao include:

Abhinav Sinha
Praveen Kumar Ranjan
Tao Feng
MingKang Wu
Johnathan Votion

Best Publications

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

Yongcan Cao;Wenwu Yu;Wei Ren;Guanrong Chen

2598
Citations
Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks

Wei Ren;Yongcan Cao

1361
Citations
Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks: Emergent Problems, Models, and Issues

Wei Ren;Yongcan Cao

1323
Citations
Autopilots for small unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey

HaiYang Chao;YongCan Cao;YangQuan Chen

642
Citations
Distributed containment control with multiple stationary or dynamic leaders in fixed and switching directed networks

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren;Magnus Egerstedt

628
Citations
Distributed Coordinated Tracking With Reduced Interaction via a Variable Structure Approach

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

627
Citations
Distributed Containment Control for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles With Double-Integrator Dynamics: Algorithms and Experiments

Yongcan Cao;D Stuart;Wei Ren;Ziyang Meng

603
Citations
Leaderless and Leader-Following Consensus With Communication and Input Delays Under a Directed Network Topology

Ziyang Meng;Wei Ren;Yongcan Cao;Zheng You

471
Citations
Decentralized finite-time sliding mode estimators and their applications in decentralized finite-time formation tracking

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren;Ziyang Meng

433
Citations
Optimal Linear-Consensus Algorithms: An LQR Perspective

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

376
Citations
Decentralized event-triggered consensus with general linear dynamics

Eloy Garcia;Yongcan Cao;David Wellman Casbeer

348
Citations
Distributed Coordination of Networked Fractional-Order Systems

Yongcan Cao;Yan Li;Wei Ren;YangQuan Chen

324
Citations
Distributed Average Tracking of Multiple Time-Varying Reference Signals With Bounded Derivatives

Fei Chen;Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

315
Citations
Multi-vehicle coordination for double-integrator dynamics under fixed undirected/directed interaction in a sampled-data setting

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

278
Citations
Decentralised event-triggered cooperative control with limited communication

Eloy García;Yongcan Cao;Han Yu;Panos J. Antsaklis

253
Citations
Containment control with multiple stationary or dynamic leaders under a directed interaction graph

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

238
Citations
Autopilots for Small Fixed-Wing Unmanned Air Vehicles: A Survey

Haiyang Chao;Yongcan Cao;YangQuan Chen

228
Citations
Brief paper: Distributed discrete-time coordinated tracking with a time-varying reference state and limited communication

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren;Yan Li

204
Citations
Periodic Event-Triggered Synchronization of Linear Multi-Agent Systems With Communication Delays

Eloy Garcia;Yongcan Cao;David W. Casbeer

204
Citations
Finite-time consensus for multi-agent networks with unknown inherent nonlinear dynamics

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

192
Citations
Distributed formation control for fractional-order systems: Dynamic interaction and absolute/relative damping

Yongcan Cao;Wei Ren

182
Citations