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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Israel
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
42
Citations
7619
World Ranking
1814
National Ranking
9

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
42
Citations
7618
World Ranking
4092
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Tal Shima is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel and conducts research primarily in the field of Engineering, with a focus on Aerospace Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Computational Mechanics.

Their research work covers a range of topics including:

  • Guidance and Control Systems
  • Military Defense Systems Analysis
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Tal Shima has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
  • AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
  • Automatica
  • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
  • 2022 European Control Conference (ECC)

Recent papers include:

  • "Consensus-Based Cooperative Geometrical Rules for Simultaneous Target Interception" (2020, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics)
  • "Minimum-Effort Impact-Time Control Guidance Using Quadratic Kinematics Approximation" (2021, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics)
  • "A Combined Linear-Quadratic/Bounded Control Differential Game Guidance Law" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems)
  • "On shortest Dubins path via a circular boundary" (2020, Automatica)
  • "Cooperative Docking Guidance and Control with Application to Civil Autonomous Aerial Refueling" (2021, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics)

Frequent collaborators in Shima's research include Martin Weiß, Gleb Merkulov, Bhargav Jha, Ronny Tsalik, and Vladimir Turetsky.

Best Publications

  • Sliding-Mode Control for Integrated Missile Autopilot Guidance

    Tal Shima;Moshe Idan;Oded M. Golan

  • Multiple task assignments for cooperating uninhabited aerial vehicles using genetic algorithms

    Tal Shima;Steven J. Rasmussen;Andrew G. Sparks;Kevin M. Passino

  • Linear Quadratic Guidance Laws for Imposing a Terminal Intercept Angle

    Vitaly Shaferman;Tal Shima

  • Optimal Cooperative Pursuit and Evasion Strategies Against a Homing Missile

    Tal Shima

  • UAV Cooperative Decision and Control: Challenges and Practical Approaches

    Steven Rasmussen;Tal Shima;Steven J. Rasmussen

  • Integrated task assignment and path optimization for cooperating uninhabited aerial vehicles using genetic algorithms

    Eugene Edison;Tal Shima

  • Cooperative Differential Games Strategies for Active Aircraft Protection from a Homing Missile

    Andrey Perelman;Tal Shima;Ilan Rusnak

  • Cooperative Multiple-Model Adaptive Guidance for an Aircraft Defending Missile

    Vitaly Shaferman;Tal Shima

  • Integrated sliding mode autopilot-guidance for dual-control missiles

    Moshe Idan;Tal Shima;Oded M. Golan

  • Time-Varying Linear Pursuit-Evasion Game Models with Bounded Controls

    Tal Shima;Josef Shinar

  • Intercept-Angle Guidance

    Tal Shima

  • Nonorthodox guidance law development approach for intercepting maneuvering targets

    J. Shinar;T. Shima

  • Cooperative Optimal Guidance Laws for Imposing a Relative Intercept Angle

    Vitaly Shaferman;Tal Shima

  • Line-of-Sight Interceptor Guidance for Defending an Aircraft

    Ashwini Ratnoo;Tal Shima

  • UAV Team Decision and Control Using Efficient Collaborative Estimation

    Tal Shima;Steven J. Rasmussen;Phillip Chandler

  • Linear Quadratic Optimal Cooperative Strategies for Active Aircraft Protection

    Oleg Prokopov;Tal Shima

  • UAV cooperative multiple task assignments using genetic algorithms

    T. Shima;S.J. Rasmussen;A.G. Sparks

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Cooperative Tracking of Moving Ground Target in Urban Environments

    Vitaly Shaferman;Tal Shima

  • Intercept Angle Missile Guidance Under Time Varying Acceleration Bounds

    Ilan Taub;Tal Shima

  • Tree search algorithm for assigning cooperating UAVs to multiple tasks

    Steven J. Rasmussen;Tal Shima

Frequent Co-Authors

Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen Peking University
Yakov Ben-Haim
Yakov Ben-Haim Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Gilead Tadmor
Gilead Tadmor Northeastern University
Carmel Domshlak
Carmel Domshlak Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Naira Hovakimyan
Naira Hovakimyan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kevin M. Passino
Kevin M. Passino The Ohio State University
Meir Pachter
Meir Pachter Air Force Institute of Technology

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