Scholar
Shashi Ranjan Kumar
Google Scholar ID: LUlGz9MAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,147
H-index
25
i10-index
52
Publications
20
Co-authors
33
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. C1973 Research Excellence Award, 2024, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- 2. Hotchand and Jamunabai Lala award for Excellence in Teaching in year 2022, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- 3. Excellent Reviewer Award in AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2021-22, 2023-24
- 4. One of the papers listed as 'Highly cited paper in the field' in ISI Web of Science and also ranked 1 in Google Scholar Metrics in the last five years (during 2013-2017, 2014-2018, and 2015-2019) appearing in AIAA-Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
- 5. Two of the papers among 'Highly Cited Articles' (3rd and 6th)
Research Experience
- 1. Associate Professor, June 2023 - Present, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- 2. Assistant Professor, July 2017 - June 2023, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- 3. Postdoctoral Researcher, November 2015 - July 2017, Cooperative Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Sponsor: Tal Shima)
- 4. IISc Junior Research Associate, June 2015 - October 2015, Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Education
- 1. PhD, Aerospace Engineering, 2015, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Advisor: Debasish Ghose, Thesis: Sliding Mode Control based Guidance Strategies with Terminal Constraints
- 2. ME, Aerospace Engineering, 2010, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Advisor: Debasish Ghose, Thesis: Sliding Mode Guidance for All-Aspect Interceptors with Terminal Constraints
- 3. BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2008, MIT Muzaffarpur, [Presently affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU)], Thesis: Design, Testing, and Validation of Transceiver Circuits for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
Background
- Research interests include guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, particularly designing simple and efficient strategies to achieve various in-flight and terminal constraints. These strategies are applicable to fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and are suitable for a variety of applications such as pursuit and evasion, target capture, online delivery systems, surveillance, and exploration. Additionally, his group investigates spacecraft/satellite-related problems such as orbit maintenance, attitude control and synchronization, rendezvous and docking, and space robotic manipulators.
