Shashi Ranjan Kumar

Dr. Shashi Ranjan Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The research topics of his group, Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, fall within the broad area of guidance and control of autonomous vehicles. Specifically, his group focuses primarily on designing simple and efficient strategies for guiding autonomous vehicles to achieve various in-flight as well as terminal constraints. These strategies are applicable for various types of vehicles such as 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 system, surveillance and exploration etc. Additionally, the problems related to spacecraft/satellite such as orbit maintenance, attitude control and synchronization, rendezvous and docking, and space robotic manipulators etc. are also being investigated by his group.

Education

 —  PhD, Aerospace Engineering, 2015, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Advisor: Debasish Ghose

Thesis: Sliding Mode Control based Guidance Strategies with Terminal Constraints

 —  ME, Aerospace Engineering, 2010, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Advisor: Debasish Ghose

Thesis: Sliding Mode Guidance for All-Aspect Interceptors with Terminal Constraints

Other Project: Design and Fabrication of a Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

 —  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)

Other Project: Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) Implementation of 16-bit Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)