Dr Jinglang Feng
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
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Creative thinker, quick learner, challenge accepter and object-oriented problem solver.
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Enjoying team work 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 modeling, 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 in Astronomy and Space Science of Nanjing University and Purple Moutain Observatory, where she started to investigate the effect of model uncertainties (e.g. gravity field, solar radiation pressure) on orbital propagation around asteroid and to model the influence of sublimations on the rotation status of a comet, respectively.
Currently, she is continuing the research about orbital dynamics and uncertainty analysis around small solar system bodies. Meanwhile, she is extending her fields to space debris removal and asteroid deflection, where similar methodologies can be shared with for addressing the new challenges. Promising disposal and deflection strategies are expected.
Prize And Awards
- Robust Trajectory Design for the Experimental Phase of Hera using Polynomial Expansion
- Recipient
- 2023
- Poster Award: Pseudorange measurement and Sun phase angle estimation using CNN-based Image Processing algorithm for Hera mission
- Recipient
- 2022
- Excellent Reviewer for the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
- Recipient
- 2022
- IAC Student Paper Competition – UK Selection
- Recipient
- 31/5/2013
Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Extending a risk metric for individual missions to evaluate overall risk in orbit
- Wilson Callum, Vasile Massimiliano, Feng Jinglang, McNally Keiran, Maric Nina, Horstmann Andre
- 75th International Astronautical Congress (2024)
- AI-based sensor fusion for robust pose estimation and autonomous navigation of spacecraft missions to asteroids
- Hall Iain, Feng Jinglang, Vasile Massimiliano
- IAF Astrodynamics Symposium 75th International Astronautical Congress, pp. 466-475 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.52202/078368-0041 author
Research Interests
Expertise in modeling of mechanical and dynamical system; numerical and analytical skills of solving nonlinear dynamics; specialized in orbital dynamics around small solar system bodies and propagation of gravity uncertainty. In particular:
- irregular gravity modelling
- stability, frozen and periodic orbits
- resonance modeling and chaos estimation
- effects of solar radiation pressure on the long-term orbital evolution
- modeling and analysis of irregular gravity uncertainty with semi-analytical methods
- control and stabilization of unstable motion
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
- 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
Contact
Dr
Jinglang
Feng
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: jinglang.feng@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2473