2026 Vijay Kumar: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	132	12	11	6	5	787	64558
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	132	38	38	21	21	791	64734

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award

Overview

Vijay Kumar is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work encompasses a diverse range of topics predominantly within materials chemistry and related subfields.

The scientist's research focuses on several principal areas, including:

Perovskite Materials and Applications
Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
Crystallization and Solubility Studies
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Copper Interconnects and Reliability
Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films

Within their main fields of study, Vijay Kumar has published 50 papers in Materials Science and 32 in Engineering. Their subfields of specialty include:

Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Mechanics of Materials
Organic Chemistry

Their recent notable publications include:

"Endohedrally Doped Cage Clusters," 2020, Chemical Reviews
"PEA₂SnBr₄: a water-stable lead-free two-dimensional perovskite and demonstration of its use as a co-catalyst in hydrogen photogeneration and organic-dye degradation," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
"Unravelling oxygen driven α to β phase transformation in tungsten," 2020, Scientific Reports
"Searching for cluster Lego blocks for three-dimensional and two-dimensional assemblies," 2021, Physical Review Materials
"Effects of Cl and F Substitution in Phenylethylammonium Spacer Cations on Stability, Structure, and Optical Properties of 2D-3D Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Layers," 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials

Vijay Kumar frequently publishes in venues such as:

The Cambridge Structural Database
ACS Applied Energy Materials
Scientific Reports
Physical Review Materials
Journal of Materials Research / Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources

They have collaborated often with co-authors including:

A. Kanjilal
Ananya Chattaraj
Anu Bala
A. Claverie
Michael G. Hahn

Best Publications

Minimum snap trajectory generation and control for quadrotors

Daniel Mellinger;Vijay Kumar

2546
Citations
Multirotor Aerial Vehicles: Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Quadrotor

R. Mahony;V. Kumar;P. Corke

1743
Citations
A vision-based formation control framework

A.K. Das;R. Fierro;V. Kumar;J.P. Ostrowski

1593
Citations
Modeling and control of formations of nonholonomic mobile robots

J.P. Desai;J.P. Ostrowski;V. Kumar

1534
Citations
Robotic grasping and contact: a review

A. Bicchi;V. Kumar

1407
Citations
Trajectory generation and control for precise aggressive maneuvers with quadrotors

Daniel Mellinger;Nathan Michael;Vijay Kumar

1308
Citations
The grand challenges of Science Robotics

Guang Zhong Yang;Jim Bellingham;Pierre E. Dupont;Peer Fischer;Peer Fischer

1187
Citations
Controlling formations of multiple mobile robots

J.P. Desai;J. Ostrowski;V. Kumar

1086
Citations
The GRASP Multiple Micro-UAV Testbed

N Michael;D Mellinger;Q Lindsey;V Kumar

1048
Citations
Leader-to-formation stability

H.G. Tanner;G.J. Pappas;V. Kumar

1004
Citations
Cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots

Nathan Michael;Jonathan Fink;Vijay Kumar

974
Citations
Towards a swarm of agile micro quadrotors

Alex Kushleyev;Daniel Mellinger;Caitlin Powers;Vijay Kumar

654
Citations
A Survey on Aerial Swarm Robotics

Soon-Jo Chung;Aditya Avinash Paranjape;Philip Dames;Shaojie Shen

620
Citations
Cooperative air and ground surveillance

B. Grocholsky;J. Keller;V. Kumar;G. Pappas

615
Citations
Cooperative Grasping and Transport Using Multiple Quadrotors

Daniel Mellinger;Michael Shomin;Nathan Michael;Vijay Kumar

604
Citations
Autonomous multi-floor indoor navigation with a computationally constrained MAV

Shaojie Shen;Nathan Michael;Vijay Kumar

540
Citations
Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight

Ke Sun;Kartik Mohta;Bernd Pfrommer;Michael Watterson

539
Citations
Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots.

Nathan Michael;Shaojie Shen;Kartik Mohta;Vijay Kumar

536
Citations
Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles

Vijay Kumar;Nathan Michael

535
Citations
Control of Mechanical Systems With Rolling Constraints: Application to Dynamic Control of Mobile Robots

Nilanjan Sarkar;Xiaoping Yun;R. Vijay Kumar

529
Citations
Collaborative mapping of an earthquake-damaged building via ground and aerial robots

Nathan Michael;Shaojie Shen;Kartik Mohta;Yash Mulgaonkar

523
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan Michael Carnegie Mellon University

Giuseppe Loianno New York University

George J. Pappas University of Pennsylvania

Camillo J. Taylor University of Pennsylvania

Alejandro Ribeiro University of Pennsylvania

Kostas Daniilidis University of Pennsylvania

Shaojie Shen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Calin Belta Boston University

Mark Yim University of Pennsylvania

Daniela Rus MIT

External Links

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