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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
36
Citations
7216
World Ranking
2476
National Ranking
883

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
36
Citations
7094
World Ranking
5274
National Ranking
1820

Ranjan Mukherjee publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ranjan Mukherjee sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 223 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Ranjan Mukherjee D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

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

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

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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