Publications

[by Category] [by Year] (✶ as corresponding author)

2026

  1. Chen, X., Shen, Z., Zwenig, A., Liu, L., Holzapfel, F., & Hong, H. (2026). Energy-Optimal Patterns of Dynamic Soaring in Nocturnal Low-Level Jets. AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum.

2025

  1. Li, H., Hafner, S., Myschik, S., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2025). Rank One Update-based Efficient Recursive Least Square Filter for Adaptive Control Allocation. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 48(9), 2118-2127

  2. Nie, X., Zwenig, A., Piprek, P., Holzapfel, F., & Hong, H.✶ (2025). Dynamic Soaring Trajectory Optimization Considering the Path Following Performance. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 61(4), 9184-9201.

  3. Liu, Y., Hong, H.✶, Piprek, P., Chudy, P., & Hu, S. (2025). Data-based Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Aircraft Systems Using Extended Implicit Sparse Identification. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 61(3), 6928-6940.

  4. Chen, X., Zwenig, A., Zhang, X., Holzapfel, F., & Hong, H.✶ (2025). Dynamic Soaring Without Wind Speed Variation: Energy Harvesting Formula in Vector Form. AIAA Journal.

  5. Liu, Y., Steinert, A., Hong, H.✶, Li, H., & Hu, S. (2025). Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion with Generalized Actuator Dynamics: Performance and Stability. Aerospace Science and Technology, 162, 110218.

  6. Steinert, A., Hafner, S., Raab, S., Holzapfel, F., & Hong, H. (2025). From Fundamentals to Applications of Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion: A Survey on INDI – Part I. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

  7. Steinert, A., Hafner, S., Raab, S., Holzapfel, F., & Hong, H. (2025). Advancements in Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion and its Components: A Survey on INDI – Part II. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

  8. Sachs, G., Hong, H., Zwenig, A. (2025). Fuel Saving for Flapping Wing Vehicles by Powered-Gliding/Climbing Flight. AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum.

  9. Zwenig, A., Beyer, Y., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2025). Trajectory Optimization of Dynamic Soaring Considering Rigid Body and Actuator Dynamics Using Warmstarting. AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum.

2024

  1. Gao, S., Hong, H., Sun, S., Luo, L., & Hu, S. (2024). Uncertainty Modeling Enabled Meta Adaptive Control for Aerial Manipulators. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 47(10), 2148-2163.

  2. Schweighofer, F., Krammer, C., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2024). Efficient Convolution-Based Representation of Smooth Reference Trajectories for Urban Air Mobility. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 47(10), 2120-2132.

  3. Lu, Z., Hong, H.✶, Schweighofer, F., & Holzapfel, F. (2024). Controllability Evaluation for VTOL Aircraft in the Velocity Envelope: A Distance-based Metric. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 47(8), 1620-1633.

  4. Erer, K., Tekin, R., & Hong, H.✶ (2024). Computational Impact-Time Guidance with Biased Proportional Navigation. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 47(6), 1249-1255.

  5. Zhang, X., Hong, H.✶ (2024) Enhanced Computational Biased Proportional Navigation with Neural Networks for Impact Time Control. Aerospace, 11(8), 670.

  6. Lu, Z., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2024). Multi-Phase Vertical Take-Off and Landing Trajectory Optimization with Feasible Initial Guesses. Aerospace, 11(1), 39.

  7. Zwenig, A., Gücker, F., Hong, H., Holzapfel, F., Steen, M., & Hecker, P. (2024). Smooth Parameterized Trajectory Planning and Control for Autonomous Dynamic Soaring. AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum.

  8. Li, H., Myschik, S., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2024). Rank One Update-based Efficient Adaptive Control Allocation for Multicopter. EuroGNC 2024.

  9. Lu, Z., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2024). Flight Trajectory Generation through a Collocation Approach with Successive Linear Programming. EuroGNC 2024.

2023

  1. Lu, Z., Hong, H.✶, Diepolder, J.,& Holzapfel, F. (2023). Maneuverability Set Estimation and Trajectory Feasibility Evaluation for eVTOL Aircraft. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 46(6), 1184-1196.

  2. Hong, H.✶, Liu, L., Holzapfel, F., & Sachs, G. (2023). Dynamic Soaring Under Different Atmospheric Stability Conditions. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 46(5), 970-977.

  3. Hong, H., Liu, L., Zwenig, A., & Sachs, G. (2023). Maximum Travel Speed of Dynamic Soaring Considering Atmospheric Stability Condition. AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.

  4. Sachs, G., Grüter, B., & Hong, H. (2023). Periodic Optimal Control for Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Flapping Wing Vehicles. AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.

  5. Zwenig, A., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2023). Sensitivity of the Energy Balance of Dynamic Soaring. MMSC 2022.

2022

  1. Piprek, P., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). Optimal Trajectory Design Accounting for Robust Stability of Path-following Controller. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 45(8), 1385-1398.

  2. Lu, Z., Hong, H.✶, Gerdts, M., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). Flight Envelope Prediction via Optimal Control-based Reachability Analysis. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 45(1), 185-195.

  3. Hong, H.✶, Piprek, P., Hu, S., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). Transition trajectory generation with time-scaled trigonometric series control parameterization. Aerospace Systems, 5, 523-530.

  4. Hong, H.✶, Grüter, B., Piprek, P., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). Smooth free-cycle dynamic soaring in unspecified shear wind via quadratic programming. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 35(7), 19-29. (Cover Paper)

  5. Piprek, P., Hong, H.✶, & Holzapfel, F. (2022). Optimal trajectory design accounting for the stabilization of linear time-varying error dynamics. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 35(7), 55-66.

  6. Wang, Y., Shang, W., & Hong, H.✶ (2022). Sub-optimal fixed-finite-horizon spacecraft configuration control on SE(3). Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 35(6), 250-261.

  7. Sachs, G., Grüter, B., & Hong, H. (2022). Performance Enhancement of Upwind Dynamic Soaring by Thrust Augmentation. AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum.

  8. Sachs, G., Grüter, B., & Hong, H. (2022). Flight Performance Advantages of Electric Aircraft. AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum.

  9. Lu, Z., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). Directional Flight Envelope Prediction based on Convex Optimization. AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum.

  10. Krammer, C., Schweighofer, F., Gierszewski, D., Scherer, S., Akman, T., Hong, H., Holzapfel, F. (2022) Requirements-Based Generation of Optimal Vertical Takeoff and Landing Trajectories for Electric Aircraft. 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022.

  11. Hong, H.✶, Piprek, P., Lu, Z., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). A Nonlinear Trigonometric Series Parameterization Approach for Smooth Trajectory Generation. EuroGNC 2022.

  12. Zwenig, A., Hong, H., & Holzapfel, F. (2022). On the Initial Relative Wind Direction of Dynamic Soaring. DLRK 2022.

2021

  1. Hong, H., Piprek, P., Gerdts, M., & Holzapfel, F. (2021). Computationally Efficient Trajectory Generation for Smooth Aircraft Flight Level Changes. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44(8), 1532-1540.

  2. Hong, H.✶, Tekin, R., & Holzapfel, F. (2021). Guaranteed Smooth Trajectory Generation for Field-of-View Constrained Impact-time Control. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44(4), 898-904.

  3. Hong, H.✶, Maity, A., & Holzapfel, F. (2021). Free Final-Time Constrained Sequential Quadratic Programming–Based Flight Vehicle Guidance. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44(1), 181-189.

  4. Hong, H.✶, Piprek, P., Afonso, R.J.M., & Holzapfel, F. (2021). Hierarchical Parameterization for Seamless Transition Trajectory Generation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57(5), 2878-2888.

  5. Hong, H.✶, Piprek, P., Afonso, R.J.M., & Holzapfel, F. (2021). Trigonometric Series-Based Smooth Flight Trajectory Generation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57(1), 721-728.

  6. Pashupashy P., Maity A., Hong, H.✶, & Holzapfel, F. (2021). Unspecified final-time nonlinear suboptimal guidance of aerobatic aircraft in air race. Aerospace Science and Technology, 116, 106817.

  7. Sachs, G., Grüter, B., & Hong, H. (2021). Performance Enhancement by Wing Sweep for High-Speed Dynamic Soaring. Aerospace, 8(8), 229.

  8. Sachs, G., Grüter, B., & Hong, H. (2021). Wing Sweep Effects on the Maximum Speed Performance in High-Speed Dynamic Soaring. AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum.

  9. Sachs, G., Grüter, B., & Hong, H. (2021). Dynamic Soaring Supported by Engine Power in Poor Wind Conditions. AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum.

2020

  1. Wang, Y., Hong, H., Guo, J., Wang, X., & Shang, W. (2020) Configuration error function design and application to fixed-time geometric terminal sliding-mode control on SE(3). Acta Astronautica, 174, 61-71.

  2. Zheng. H., Piprek, P., Hong, H., Holzapfel, F., & Tang, S. (2020). Smooth Sub-optimal Trajectory Generation for Transition Maneuvers. IEEE Access, 8, 61035-61042.

2019

  1. Hong, H., Maity, A., Holzapfel, F., Tang, S., & Wang, M. (2019). Smooth Interpolation-Based Fixed-Final-Time Command Generation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 55(6), 3039-3049.

  2. Hong, H., Maity, A., Holzapfel, F., & Tang, S. (2019). Model Predictive Convex Programming for Constrained Vehicle Guidance. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 55(5), 2487-2500.

  3. Hong, H., Maity, A., Holzapfel, F., & Tang, S. (2019). Adaptive trajectory generation based on real-time estimated parameters for impaired aircraft landing. International Journal of Systems Science, 50(15), 2733-2751.

  4. Wang, Y., Hong, H., & Tang, S. (2019). Geometric control with model predictive static programming on SO(3). Acta Astronautica, 159, 471-479.

  5. Pashupashy P., Maity A., Hong, H., Bittner, M., & Holzapfel, F. (2019). Aerobatic Aircraft Guidance Design for Air-Race Scenario. 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 795-800.

  6. Zheng, H., Hong, H., & Tang, S. (2019). Model Predictive Static Programming Rendezvous Trajectory Generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS), 415-420.

  7. Hong, H., Zheng, H., Holzapfel, F., & Tang, S. (2019). Dynamic Soaring in Unspecified Wind Shear: A Real-time Quadratic-programming Approach. 2019 27th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 600-605.

  8. Zheng, H., Hong, H., & Tang, S. (2019). An Optimal L_1 Navigation Design Framework for Constrained Heading Control and Coordination. 2019 12th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), 610-615.

2018

  1. Hong, H., Wang, M., Holzapfel, F., & Tang, S. (2018). Wind Estimation for Fixed-wing Aircraft using Command Tracking Approach. 2018 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 879-884.

2017

  1. Hong, H., Wang, M., Holzapfel, F., & Tang, S. (2017). Fast real-time three-dimensional wind estimation for fixed-wing aircraft. Aerospace Science and Technology, 69, 674-685.

  2. Wang, M., Zhang, S., Holzapfel, F., & Hong, H. (2017). L1 augmentations for a fixed gain controller on a Large Transport Aircraft. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference.