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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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36
Citations
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World Ranking
2473
National Ranking
882

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36
Citations
7094
World Ranking
5274
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Ranjan Mukherjee is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering with a focus on control and systems engineering.

Their research covers several main fields and subfields, including:

  • Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials

Their work spans multiple core topics, specifically:

  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning

Mukherjee has published research in various specialized venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Flow

Some recent publications reflect the diversity and technical depth of their work:

  • Orbital Stabilization of Underactuated Systems using Virtual Holonomic Constraints and Impulse Controlled Poincaré Maps, 2020, Systems & Control Letters
  • Underwater shear-based grooming of marine biofouling using a non-contact Bernoulli pad device, 2020, Biofouling
  • Non-prehensile manipulation of a devil-stick: planar symmetric juggling using impulsive forces, 2021, Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Juggling a Devil-Stick: Hybrid Orbit Stabilization Using the Impulse Controlled Poincaré Map, 2021, IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Controlling a robotic arm for functional tasks using a wireless head-joystick: A case study of a child with congenital absence of upper and lower limbs, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Nilay Kant
  • Aakash Khandelwal
  • Aren Hellum
  • Kristina M. Kamensky
  • Sanders Aspelund

In recognition of contributions to the field, Mukherjee was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Dexterous articulated linkage for surgical applications

    Mark A. Minor;Ranjan Mukherjee

  • Nonholonomic path planning of space robots via a bidirectional approach

    Y. Nakamura;R. Mukherjee

  • Minimally invasive surgical training using robotics and telecollaboration

    Yulun Wang;Modjtaba Ghodoussi;Darrin R. Uecker;James W. Wright

  • Unified Impedance and Admittance Control

    Christian Ott;Ranjan Mukherjee;Yoshihiko Nakamura

  • A shared-control approach to haptic interface design for minimally invasive telesurgical training

    S.S. Nudehi;R. Mukherjee;M. Ghodoussi

  • Climbing the walls [robots]

    R. Lal Tummala;R. Mukherjee;Ning Xi;D. Aslam

  • Nonholonomic path planning of space robots via a bidirectional approach

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  • Robot with a manipulator arm

    Yulun Wang;Keith Phillip Laby;Ranjan Mukherjee

  • Motion Planning for a Spherical Mobile Robot: Revisiting the Classical Ball-Plate Problem

    Ranjan Mukherjee;Mark A. Minor;Jay T. Pukrushpan

  • Exploiting nonholonomic redundancy of free-flying space robots

    Y. Nakamura;R. Mukherjee

  • Simple motion planning strategies for spherobot: a spherical mobile robot

    R. Mukherjee;M.A. Minor;J.T. Pukrushpan

  • Articulated manipulator for minimally invasive surgery (AMMIS)

    Ranjan Mukherjee;Gangbing Song

  • Output feedback stabilization of inverted pendulum on a cart in the presence of uncertainties

    Joonho Lee;Ranjan Mukherjee;Hassan K. Khalil

  • Spherical mobile robot

    Ranjan Mukherjee

  • A Hybrid System Framework for Unified Impedance and Admittance Control

    Christian Ott;Ranjan Mukherjee;Yoshihiko Nakamura

  • Nonholonomic path planning of space robots

    Y. Nakamura;R. Mukherjee

  • Swing-Up Control of the Pendubot: An Impulse–Momentum Approach

    T. Albahkali;R. Mukherjee;T. Das

  • Control of free-flying underactuated space manipulators to equilibrium manifolds

    R. Mukherjee;Degang Chen

  • Actuation system for the control of multiple shape memory alloy elements

    Ranjan Mukherjee;Thomas F. Christian

  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of an under-actuated miniature biped climbing robot

    M. Minor;H. Dulimarta;G. Danghi;R. Mukherjee

  • Asymptotic stability theorem for autonomous systems

    Ranjan Mukherjee;Degang Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Hassan K. Khalil
Hassan K. Khalil Michigan State University
Steven W. Shaw
Steven W. Shaw Florida Institute of Technology
Gangbing Song
Gangbing Song University of Houston
Yoshihiko Nakamura
Yoshihiko Nakamura Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Ning Xi
Ning Xi University of Hong Kong
Matt W. Mutka
Matt W. Mutka Michigan State University
John L. Junkins
John L. Junkins Texas A&M University
Guoming G. Zhu
Guoming G. Zhu Michigan State University
Jizhong Xiao
Jizhong Xiao City University of New York

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