Bruce A. Francis

Computer Networks and Communications · 1975–2009

A researcher in the Science corpus: 7 papers; trusts 20 researchers and is trusted by 57 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Computer Networks and Communications — 39 citations into it; #431 of 9,886 by trust here, #496 by citations
• Control and Systems Engineering — 14 citations into it; #3,062 of 8,257 by trust here, #1,294 by citations
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 8 citations into it
• Mechanical Engineering — 8 citations into it; #590 of 8,300 by trust here, #2,378 by citations
• Molecular Biology — 8 citations into it
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health — 7 citations into it

Whom Bruce A. Francis trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Reza Olfati-Saber
2. Zhiyun Lin
3. Luc Moreau
4. Mireille E. Broucke
5. Yuko Hatano
6. Jorge Cortés
7. Ali Jadbabaie
8. Richard M. Murray
9. A. Stephen Morse
10. Veysel Gazi

Who trusts Bruce A. Francis overall

1. Wei Ren
2. Francesco Bullo
3. Yongcan Cao
4. Ali Saberi
5. Harry L. Trentelman
6. Emre Sariyildiz
7. Anton A. Stoorvogel
8. Florian Dörfler
9. Zhiyun Lin
10. B.D.O. Anderson

Papers from Bruce A. Francis's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Bruce A. Francis trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules
2. Consensus problems in networks of agents with switching topology and time-delays
3. Stability analysis of swarms (Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference (IEEE Cat. No.CH37301))
4. Virtual leaders, artificial potentials and coordinated control of groups
5. Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents
6. DISTRIBUTED COOPERATIVE CONTROL OF MULTIPLE VEHICLE FORMATIONS USING STRUCTURAL POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS
7. Agreement over random networks
8. Flocks, herds, and schools: a distributed behavioral model
9. Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control)
10. Creating emergent behaviors: two robotics labs that combine reactive behaviors (Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education)

Their papers

• Stabilizing a linear system by switching control with dwell time (2001) — 298 citations
• Stabilisation of infinitesimally rigid formations of multi-robot networks (2009) — 541 citations
• State Agreement for Continuous-Time Coupled Nonlinear Systems (2007) — 527 citations
• Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles (2005) — 1,084 citations
• Formations of vehicles in cyclic pursuit (2004) — 701 citations
• Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents (2004) — 882 citations
• The internal model principle for linear multivariable regulators (1975)