I don't know if there are any papers regarding camera settings, besides the ones specifying their own settings taken for their experiments. This is highly dependant on the problem you're working with.

During my last data collection I mistakenly activated auto-exposure on 5 different cameras, and no surprises the results were really shitty because of difference in illumination and some desynchronization issues, albeit having an specified frame rate.

So what happened is that all this data using auto-exposure had to be thrown away, and I had to double check all setting every time to make sure I had a good trade-off for capturing high-frequency motion, because we needed to capture rapid changes in position but still try to have light in the scene.