B.Sc. (summa cum laude), MA, and Ph.D., all in Aerospace Engineering, Technion, 1995, 2008, and 2011, respectively. Post-doctoral fellow at the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) at TU-Wien the Vienna University of Technology, 2014-2016. Served 25 years in various engineering positions in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) and is a distinguished graduate of the US Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California. At the Technion since 2020.
Biographical Data
Main areas of research
My research interests are in the area of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of autonomous aerial and space vehicles.
Specific interests include:
- Autonomous spacecraft entry, descent, and landing
- Autonomous spacecraft docking
- Optimal spacecraft evasion from debris
- Cooperative and one-on-one missile guidance, evasion, and tracking
- Optimal control and differential games
- Adaptive control
Selected publications
- Shaferman V. and Shima T., “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Cooperative Tracking of Moving Ground Target in Urban Environments”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 5, September – October 2008, pp. 1360-1371.
- Shaferman V. and Shima T., “Linear Quadratic Guidance Laws for Imposing a Terminal Intercept Angle”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 5, September – October 2008, pp. 1400-1412.
- Shaferman V. and Shima T., “Cooperative Multiple Model Adaptive Guidance for an Aircraft Defending Missile”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 33, No. 6, November – December 2010, pp. 1801-1813.
- Shaferman V. and Shima T., “Cooperative Optimal Guidance Laws for Imposing a Relative Intercept Angle”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 38, No. 8, August 2015, pp. 1395-1408.
- Shaferman V. and Oshman Y., “Stochastic Cooperative Interception Using Information Sharing Based on Engagement Staggering”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 39, No. 9, September 2016, pp. 2127-2141.
- Shaferman V., “Near Optimal Evasion from Pursuers Employing Modern Linear Guidance Laws”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 44, No. 10, October 2021, pp. 1823-1835.
- Shaferman V., Schwegel M., Glück T., and Kugi A., “Continuous-Time Least-Squares Forgetting Algorithms for Indirect Adaptive Control”, European Journal of Control, Vol. 62, November 2021, pp. 105-112.
- Mishley A. and Shaferman V. “Linear Quadratic Guidance Laws with Intercept Angle Constraints and Varying Speed Adversaries”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (accepted).
