Haichao Hong [中文]

Fueled by flight mechanics, mathematics, bio-inspiration, and a passion for aerospace engineering, our research is geared towards safely and efficiently completing flight missions and tackling associated GNC challenges. We design innovative aerial systems and techniques to achieve autonomous guidance and control, boost safety, and advance aerial mobility - realizing the transition from inspiration to operation.

• Flight Mechanics
• Trajectory Optimization
• Bio-inspired Flight Techniques
• Guidance, Navigation, and Control
• Electric Aircraft

• 2024.08:

  Our paper entitled "Uncertainty Modeling Enabled Meta Adaptive Control for Aerial Manipulators" has been published by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2024.06:

  I started serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerosapce and Electronic Systems.

• 2024.06:

  Our paper entitled "Efficient Convolution-Based Representation of Smooth Reference Trajectories for Urban Air Mobility" has been published by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2024.05:

  Our paper entitled "Controllability Evaluation for VTOL Aircraft in the Velocity Envelope: A Distance-based Metric" has been published by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2024.02:

  Our paper entitled "Computational Impact-Time Guidance with Biased Proportional Navigation" has been published by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2023.12:

  Our paper entitled "Multi-Phase Vertical Take-Off and Landing Trajectory Optimization with Feasible Initial Guesses" has been published by the Aerospace.

• 2023.06:

  Our paper entitled "Maneuverability Set Estimation and Trajectory Feasibility Evaluation for eVTOL Aircraft" has been published by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2023.05:

  I started to serve as a member on the GNC TC of AIAA.

• 2023.03:

  Our paper entitled "Dynamic Soaring Under Different Atmospheric Stability Conditions" has been published by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2023.01:

  I presented our paper at the AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.

• 2022.05:

  Our paper entitled "Transition Trajectory Generation with Time-scaled Trigonometric Series Control Parameterization" has been accepted by the Aerosapce Systems.

• 2022.05:

  I presented our paper at the EuroGNC 2022.

• 2022.03:

  I started to serve as an editorial board member for the Aerospace Systems.

• 2022.02:

  Our paper entitled "Smooth free-cycle dynamic soaring in unspecified shear wind via quadratic programming" is selected to be the Cover Paper of the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics for Vol. 35, No. 7.

• 2022.02:

  Our paper entitled "Optimal Trajectory Design Accounting for Robust Stability of Path-following Controller" has been accepted by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2022.01:

  I presented our two papers at the AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum.

• 2021.10:

  Our paper entitled "Optimal trajectory design accounting for the stabilization of linear time-varying error dynamics" has been accepted by the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

• 2021.09:

  Our paper entitled "Smooth free-cycle dynamic soaring in unspecified shear wind via quadratic programming" has been accepted by the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

• 2021.08:

  Our paper entitled "Flight Envelope Prediction via Optimal Control-based Reachability Analysis" has been accepted by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2021.08:

  Our paper entitled "Performance Enhancement by Wing Sweep for High-Speed Dynamic Soaring" has been accepted by the Aerospace.

• 2021.07:

  Our paper entitled "Sub-optimal fixed-finite-horizon spacecraft configuration control on SE(3)" has been accepted by the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

• 2021.05:

  Our paper entitled "Unspecified final-time nonlinear suboptimal guidance of aerobatic aircraft in air race" has been accepted by the Aerospace Science and Technology.

• 2021.03:

  Our paper entitled "Computationally Efficient Trajectory Generation for Smooth Aircraft Flight Level Changes" has been accepted by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2021.02:

  Our paper entitled "Hierarchical Parameterization for Seamless Transition Trajectory Generation" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

• 2021.01:

  I presented our two papers at the AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum.

• 2020.12:

  Our paper entitled "Guaranteed Smooth Trajectory Generation for Field-of-View Constrained Impact-time Control" has been accepted by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• 2020.10:

  Our paper entitled "Free Final-Time Constrained Sequential Quadratic Programming–Based Flight Vehicle Guidance" has been accepted by the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.