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D-Index
48
Citations
8993
World Ranking
4559
National Ranking
1306

Meir Pachter publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Meir Pachter sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 369 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Meir Pachter D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Meir Pachter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Meir Pachter is a researcher affiliated with the Air Force Institute of Technology in the United States. Their work is primarily concentrated in the field of Engineering, with significant contributions to Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The research topics addressed by Meir Pachter include:

  • Guidance and Control Systems
  • Military Defense Systems Analysis
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Extremum Seeking Control Systems
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by Meir Pachter are:

  • "Cooperative Pursuit by Multiple Pursuers of a Single Evader," 2020, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
  • "Optimal Strategies for a Class of Multi-Player Reach-Avoid Differential Games in 3D Space," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Circular Target Defense Differential Games*," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Optimal guidance strategy for the defense of a non-manoeuvrable target in 3-dimensions," 2020, IET Control Theory and Applications
  • "Multiple Pursuer Multiple Evader Differential Games," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meir Pachter include:

  • David W. Casbeer
  • Eloy García
  • Alexander Von Moll
  • Isaac E. Weintraub
  • Dejan Milutinović

Meir Pachter's research is often published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
  • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
  • Dynamic Games and Applications

Best Publications

  • Tight Formation Flight Control

    Meir Pachter;John J. D’Azzo;Andrew W. Proud

  • Toward improvement of tracking performance nonlinear feedback for linear systems

    Zongli Lin;Meir Pachter;Siva Banda

  • UAV Cooperative Path Planning

    P. R. Chandler;S. Rasmussen;Wright-Patterson Afb;M. Pachter

  • UAV cooperative control

    P.R. Chandler;M. Pachter;S. Rasmussen

  • System identification for adaptive and reconfigurable control

    P. R. Chandler;M. Pachter;M. Mears

  • Complexity in UAV cooperative control

    P.R. Chandler;M. Pachter;D. Swaroop;J.M. Fowler

  • Cooperative control of UAV rendezvous

    T.W. McLain;P.R. Chandler;S. Rasmussen;M. Pachter

  • Close formation flight control

    Andrew Proud;Meir Pachter;John D'Azzo

  • Automatic formation flight control

    M. Pachter;J. J. D'Azzo;J. L. Dargan

  • Closed-form solution for determining emitter location using time difference of arrival measurements

    G. Mellen;M. Pachter;J. Raquet

  • Dynamic network flow optimization models for air vehicle resource allocation

    K.E. Nygard;P.R. Chandler;M. Pachter

  • Cooperative Control for Autonomous Air Vehicles

    Kevin Passino;Marios Polycarpou;David Jacques;Meir Pachter

  • Challenges of autonomous control

    Unknown

  • Cooperative Strategies for Optimal Aircraft Defense from an Attacking Missile

    Eloy Garcia;David W. Casbeer;Meir Pachter

  • Design and Analysis of State-Feedback Optimal Strategies for the Differential Game of Active Defense

    Eloy Garcia;David W. Casbeer;Meir Pachter

  • A decomposition strategy for optimal coordination of unmanned air vehicles

    T.W. McLain;P.R. Chandler;M. Pachter

  • Hierarchical Control for Autonomous Teams

    P. R. Chandler;Wright-Patterson Afb;M. Pachter

  • Reconfigurable tracking control with saturation

    M. Pachter;P. R. Chandler;M. Mears

  • Constrained Optimization for UAV Task Assignment

    Corey Schumacher;Phillip Chandler;Meir Pachter;Lior Pachter

  • Two-target pursuit-evasion differential games in the plane

    W. M. Getz;M. Pachter

  • Adaptive feedback linearizing nonlinear close formation control of UAVs

    S.N. Singh;P. Chandler;C. Schumacher;S. Banda

  • Flight Test Results of Close Formation Flight for Fuel Savings

    Eugene Wagner;David Jacques;William Blake;Meir Pachter

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Casbeer
David W. Casbeer United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Swaroop Darbha
Swaroop Darbha Texas A&M University
Pramod P. Khargonekar
Pramod P. Khargonekar University of California, Irvine
Anouck Girard
Anouck Girard University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter California Institute of Technology
Sahjendra N. Singh
Sahjendra N. Singh University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panagiotis Tsiotras
Panagiotis Tsiotras Georgia Institute of Technology
Zongli Lin
Zongli Lin University of Virginia
Anthony N. Palazotto
Anthony N. Palazotto Air Force Institute of Technology
Timothy W. McLain
Timothy W. McLain Brigham Young University

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