control-literature-search

name	control-literature-search
description	Use for academic literature search, prior-work review, or research-gap discovery in control science and engineering. Translate Chinese topics to English and call search_control_science_papers from Control Science Literature MCP first. This skill only covers the configured journal search and does not use web, arXiv, PDF, or validation tools.

Control Literature Search

Use this skill to turn a control-science research question into a traceable candidate paper list from the configured core journal collection.

This skill requires the search_control_science_papers tool from Control Science Literature MCP. If that tool is unavailable, explain that the MCP server must be installed and enabled. Do not substitute another search tool.

Scope

• Search only the configured control science and engineering journal collection.
• Use English search queries. Translate Chinese research topics before searching.
• Do not call web, arXiv, PDF, browser, file, shell, or validation tools.
• Do not claim coverage of conference papers, preprints, or journals outside the configured collection.
• Treat returned abstracts and metadata as search evidence, not as sufficient evidence for detailed method, theorem, or research-gap claims.

Workflow

1. Restate the research target in one sentence.
2. Extract 3-8 core concepts. Include focused control-domain variants where useful, such as networked control systems, event-triggered control, robust control, model predictive control, Lyapunov stability, LMI, multi-agent systems, or control barrier functions.
3. Translate Chinese concepts to concise English keywords.
4. Call search_control_science_papers with the most direct query first.
5. For a broad topic, run up to three focused query variants. Use citations when the user asks for influential work and date when they ask for recent work.
6. Deduplicate obvious repeated titles and present the candidates with their returned metadata.
7. State that the results are limited to the configured control science and engineering journal collection. If the results are thin, say that this collection may not cover the requested venue or paper type.

Tool Parameters

• query (required): English research keywords.
• max_results: Number of papers to return, from 1 to 20.
• sort: relevance, citations, or date.
• year_from / year_to: Optional inclusive publication-year bounds.
• language: Optional lower-case ISO language code; defaults to en.

The tool is fixed to the configured journal collection. It does not accept publication-type or individual-journal parameters.

Examples

search_control_science_papers(
  query="event-triggered control multi-agent systems",
  max_results=10,
  sort="citations",
  year_from=2022
)

search_control_science_papers(
  query="control barrier functions intelligent vehicles",
  max_results=10,
  sort="date",
  year_from=2024
)

Reporting

For each candidate, retain the returned title, authors, year, citations, venue, DOI, OpenAlex ID, and abstract when available. Clearly separate:

• What the metadata directly supports, such as publication venue and citation count.
• What requires later full-text reading, such as assumptions, proofs, limitations, and research gaps.