Dr Jinglang Feng
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
Creative thinker, quick learner, challenge accepter and object-oriented problem solver.
Enjoying teamwork in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment with efficient communication skills.
Before joining Strathclyde, she pursued her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology, with research efforts on innovatively nonlinear dynamics modelling, solving dynamics and control problems in highly nonlinear systems with a focus on contact binary asteroid systems. Afterwards, she continued research as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanjing University and Purple Mountain Observatory, where she investigated the effect of model uncertainties (e.g. gravity field, solar radiation pressure) on the orbital propagation around asteroids and to model the influence of sublimations on the rotation status of a comet, respectively. Then, she was appointed to a lecturer position at the University of Strathclyde, where she continued the research about orbital dynamics and uncertainty analysis and applied it to space debris removal and asteroid deflection. She also started her new research branches in autonomous navigation, intelligent space robotic arm control and AI-based sensor fusion for active debris removal (ADR), in-orbit servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM), to address the challenges of space sustainability. She is currently a member of the Astrodynamics Committee of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), representing the UK.
Prize And Awards
- Robust Trajectory Design for the Experimental Phase of Hera using Polynomial Expansion
- Recipient
- 2023
- Excellent Reviewer for the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
- Recipient
- 2022
- Poster Award: Pseudorange measurement and Sun phase angle estimation using CNN-based Image Processing algorithm for Hera mission
- Recipient
- 2022
- IAC Student Paper Competition – UK Selection
- Recipient
- 31/5/2013
Publications
- Modelling future launch traffic and the associated risk to new missions
- Wilson Callum, Vasile Massimiliano, Feng Jinglang, McNally Keiran, Maric Nina, Horstmann Andre
- Advances in Space Research (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2025.07.055
- Robustness analysis of data-driven image-processing algorithms applied to the Hera mission
- Kaluthantrige Aurelio, Pugliatti Mattia, Feng Jinglang, Topputo Francesco, Gil-Fernández Jesús
- Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.2514/1.A36170
- On estimations of Dawn spacecraft’s capture probability into 1:1 ground-track resonance around Vesta
- Boumchita Wail, Feng Jinglang, Neishtadt Anatoly
- Nonlinear Dynamics Vol 113, pp. 14773-14789 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-025-10889-8
- Semi-analytical attitude propagation of low-altitude Earth orbiting objects
- Cavallari I, Feng J, Vasile M
- Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation Vol 142 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.108550
- Semi-analytical attitude propagation for earth orbiting objects
- Cavallari I, Feng J, Vasile M
- Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation Vol 142 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.108549
- Convolutional-neural-network-based autonomous navigation of Hera mission around Didymos
- Kaluthantrige Don Mewantha Aurelio, Feng Jinglang, Gil-Fernández Jesús
- Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics Vol 48, pp. 46-59 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G008054
Research Interests
Expertise in modelling and solving of highly nonlinear dynamical system; specialized in autonomous navigation, her research interests include:
- irregular gravity modelling
- resonance dynamics and chaos estimation for space applications
- uncertainty quantification of orbital motion around Earth and asteroids for planetary defence
- autonomous optical navigation for asteroid missions and ISAM, ADR
- intelligent space robotic arm control for ISAM, ADR
- AI-based sensor fusion for space navigation and control
Professional Activities
- 2nd International Workshop on AI for Space Sustainability
- Member of programme committee
- 30/10/2024
- 1st International Workshop on AI for Space Sustainability
- Member of programme committee
- 2024
- Journal Astrodynamics (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2024
- Asteroid Exploration and Planetary Defense
- Speaker
- 6/2023
- International Astronautical Federation (IAF) (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2023
- Stardust-R final conference
- Participant
- 11/2022
Projects
- AI-based multi-sensor data fusion for autonomous navigation around asteroids
- Feng, Jinglang (Principal Investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator) Wu, Yue (Co-investigator) Zabalza, Jaime (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
- SOLERO - Solar Power Satellite vs the Space Environment
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- AI for Space Operations, Safety and Sustainability (A14S3)
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Marshall, Stephen (Co-investigator) Murray, Paul (Co-investigator) Riccardi, Annalisa (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- ASTRAIOS Analysis of Skills, Training, Research, and Innovation Opportunities in Space (Horizon-CL4-SPACE)
- Maddock, Christie (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator) Zabihian, Ehsan (Research Co-investigator)
- The advancement of the EU space sector is highly dependent on the availability of high educational standards, skilled professionals, and the ability for these professionals to upgrade and update their skills.
The ASTRAIOS project will foster innovation, increase EU competitiveness in the space sector and improve the dynamics of the space entrepreneurships ecosystems.
To achieve this, the ASTRAIOS team will provide an exhaustive view and understanding of the current and future Space curricula and courses offered in the EU-27. The project will also describe the need from the European Space industry in the next 10-15 years and identify actionable ways towards a better alignment between the offered educational programmes and the skills required by the future European space industry. - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- Robust & intelligent GNC techniques for autonomous free-flying space manipulators operations
- Sampath, Shabadini (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Project Lead) Vasile, Massimiliano (Project Lead)
- To address space sustainability, the removal of failure objects (to reduce the population size) and extension of the operational life of active ones (in orbit servicing) requires the use of proper capturing devices, e.g. space robotic arm. This project aims to develop an intelligent controller to operate a space manipulator to achieve the desired movement considering the large uncertainties in the dynamical environment.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- ESCAPE - Exploration of the SpaceCArrying capacity ProblEm
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Jinglang
Feng
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: jinglang.feng@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2473