Shashi Ranjan Kumar

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
126 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Shashi Ranjan Kumar is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shashi Ranjan Kumar has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 38 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 34 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Shashi Ranjan Kumar's work include Guidance and Control Systems (104 papers), Military Defense Systems Analysis (74 papers) and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (34 papers). Shashi Ranjan Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Guidance and Control Systems (104 papers), Military Defense Systems Analysis (74 papers) and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (34 papers). Shashi Ranjan Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Israel. Shashi Ranjan Kumar's co-authors include Debasish Ghose, Sachit Rao, Dwaipayan Mukherjee, Abhinav Sinha, Arnab Maity, Tal Shima, Amit Agrawal, Atul Sharma, Vijay P. Singh and Surendra Kumar Mishra and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and Hydrological Processes.

In The Last Decade

Shashi Ranjan Kumar

103 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Guidance with Impact An... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Guidance with Impact Angle Constraints
    2014 283 citations Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Debasish Ghose et al. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shashi Ranjan Kumar India 22 1.9k 627 520 280 256 126 2.1k
Defu Lin China 23 1.3k 0.7× 813 1.3× 258 0.5× 89 0.3× 293 1.1× 131 1.7k
Chang-Kyung Ryoo South Korea 17 1.6k 0.8× 503 0.8× 444 0.9× 172 0.6× 233 0.9× 99 1.7k
Moshe Idan Israel 21 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 1.9× 231 0.4× 122 0.4× 114 0.4× 87 1.9k
Jiayuan Shan China 20 599 0.3× 407 0.6× 93 0.2× 51 0.2× 135 0.5× 72 1.0k
Shengjing Tang China 17 524 0.3× 448 0.7× 55 0.1× 53 0.2× 159 0.6× 56 862
Joseph Z. Ben‐Asher Israel 16 622 0.3× 492 0.8× 86 0.2× 110 0.4× 120 0.5× 84 951
Shuxing Yang China 17 383 0.2× 180 0.3× 100 0.2× 69 0.2× 25 0.1× 42 750
Xiaoxiang Hu China 19 451 0.2× 990 1.6× 34 0.1× 37 0.1× 51 0.2× 90 1.2k
Wuxing Jing China 19 820 0.4× 461 0.7× 47 0.1× 155 0.6× 98 0.4× 131 1.1k
Richard J. Prazenica United States 15 379 0.2× 223 0.4× 87 0.2× 82 0.3× 231 0.9× 63 641

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shashi Ranjan Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shashi Ranjan Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shashi Ranjan Kumar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shashi Ranjan Kumar. Shashi Ranjan Kumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mishra, Sudhanshu, et al.. (2025). First-Flush Driven Sediment Graph Modeling with Soil Moisture Accounting. Journal of Water Management Modeling.
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2025). Robust trajectory tracking of an uncertain quadrotor with almost global finite-time convergence. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 239(8). 792–817.
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2025). Robust Exact-Time Trajectory Tracking Control for Autonomous Surface Vessels. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 50(2). 1184–1195.
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Maity, Arnab, et al.. (2024). Polynomial shaping based three-dimensional impact angle and field-of-view constrained guidance. Aerospace Science and Technology. 147. 109018–109018. 7 indexed citations
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Singh, Swati, et al.. (2024). Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Guidance with Impact Time and Field-of-view Constraints. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 57. 25–30.
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Maity, Arnab, et al.. (2024). Quaternion-based non-singular nonlinear impact angle guidance for three-dimensional engagements. Aerospace Science and Technology. 155. 109657–109657. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2024). Modified super twisting control for robust trajectory tracking and hovering of quadrotor. ISA Transactions. 153. 41–56. 6 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2024). Three-Dimensional Path-Following Nonlinear Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 47(6). 1231–1240.
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Singh, Swati, et al.. (2024). Network Small Gain Theorem. 1153–1158.
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Sinha, Abhinav, et al.. (2024). Robust path-following guidance for an autonomous vehicle in the presence of wind. Aerospace Science and Technology. 150. 109225–109225. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2024). Three-dimensional impact angle constrained nonlinear guidance with predefined convergence time. Nonlinear Dynamics. 112(12). 9983–10008. 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2023). Impact Time Constrained Sliding Mode Guidance with Prescribed Performance. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum. 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2021). Sliding mode–based simultaneous control of impact angle and impact time. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 236(7). 1269–1281. 4 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2021). Lead Angle based Three-Dimensional Guidance for Angle Constrained Interception. AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan & Dwaipayan Mukherjee. (2019). Cooperative Guidance Strategies for Active Aircraft Protection. 4641–4646. 14 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan, et al.. (2017). Nonlinear Robust Inscribed Angle Guidance for Stationary Targets. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 40(7). 1815–1823. 14 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shashi Ranjan & Debasish Ghose. (2016). Three-dimensional impact angle guidance with coupled engagement dynamics. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 231(4). 621–641. 47 indexed citations
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Danish, Mohd, et al.. (2006). Optimal Solution of MINLP Problems Using Modified Genetic Algorithm. Chemical Product and Process Modeling. 1(1). 5 indexed citations

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