Dr Jinglang Feng

Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Personal statement

  • Creative thinker, quick learner, challenge accepter and object-oriented problem solver.

  • Enjoying team work in multidisciplinary and multicultural environment with efficiency communication skills. 

  • Creative thinker, quick learner, challenge accepter and object-oriented problem solver.
  • Enjoying teamwork in multidisciplinary and multicultural environment with efficiency communication skills. 

Before joining Strathclyde, she pursued her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology, with research efforts on innovatively nonlinear dynamics modelling, solving dynamics and control problems in the highly nonlinear system with specification on contact binary asteroid systems. Afterward, 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 asteroid and to model the influence of sublimations on the rotation status of a comet, respectively. Then, she was appointed a lecturer position at the University of Strathclyde, where she continued the research about orbital dynamics and uncertainty analysis and applied to space debris removal and asteroid deflection. She started new research branch of 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 the member of the Astrodynamics Committee of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF).

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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

More professional activities

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
ESCAPE - Exploration of the SpaceCArrying capacity ProblEm
Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
Semi-analytical Attitude Propagation Theory
Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Bi, Sifeng (Co-investigator) Feng, Jinglang (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2024

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Dr Jinglang Feng
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Email: jinglang.feng@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2473