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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
46
Citations
8954
World Ranking
1430
National Ranking
565

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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46
Citations
8675
World Ranking
3377
National Ranking
1244

Overview

Ping Lu is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States and has a research focus centered on engineering, particularly aerospace engineering. Their body of work spans 53 published pieces primarily within this discipline.

The main subfields of study for Ping Lu include aerospace engineering with 45 publications, astronomy and astrophysics with 7, numerical analysis with 4, computational theory and mathematics with 3, and control and systems engineering with 3.

The scientist's research topics can be categorized as follows:

  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Guidance and Control Systems
  • Space Satellite Systems and Control
  • Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research
  • Optimization and Variational Analysis

Ping Lu has contributed significantly to scientific literature in several notable venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics (13 publications)
  • AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum (5 publications)
  • Optimal Control Applications and Methods (5 publications)
  • AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (2 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ping Lu are:

  • "Six-Degree-of-Freedom Rocket Landing Optimization via Augmented Convex-Concave Decomposition," 2023, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
  • "Convex-Concave Decomposition of Nonlinear Equality Constraints in Optimal Control," 2020, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
  • "Propellant-Optimal Powered Descent Guidance Revisited," 2023, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
  • "What Is Guidance?," 2021, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

Frequent collaborators include Mike J. Grimble, Richard D. Braatz, Bion L. Pierson, E.J. Davison, and Hossein Javaherian, each having worked with Ping Lu on multiple occasions.

Best Publications

  • Onboard Generation of Three-Dimensional Constrained Entry Trajectories

    Zuojun Shen;Ping Lu

  • Entry Guidance: A Unified Method

    Ping Lu

  • Solving Nonconvex Optimal Control Problems by Convex Optimization

    Xinfu Liu;Ping Lu

  • Entry Trajectory Optimization by Second-Order Cone Programming

    Xinfu Liu;Zuojun Shen;Ping Lu

  • Survey of convex optimization for aerospace applications

    Xinfu Liu;Ping Lu;Binfeng Pan

  • Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Rendezvous and Proximity Operations by Conic Optimization

    Ping Lu;Xinfu Liu

  • Adaptive Terminal Guidance for Hypervelocity Impact in Specified Direction

    Ping Lu;David B. Doman;John D. Schierman

  • Two Reconfigurable Flight-Control Design Methods: Robust Servomechanism and Control Allocation

    John J. Burken;Ping Lu;Zhenglu Wu;Cathy Bahm

  • Nonlinear predictive controllers for continuous systems

    Ping Lu

  • Entry Guidance and Trajectory Control for Reusable Launch Vehicle

    Ping Lu

  • Predictor-Corrector Entry Guidance for Low-Lifting Vehicles

    Ping Lu

  • Constrained Predictor-Corrector Entry Guidance

    Songbai Xue;Ping Lu

  • Closed-loop endoatmospheric ascent guidance

    Ping Lu;Hongsheng Sun;Bruce Tsai

  • Optimal predictive control of continuous nonlinear systems

    Ping Lu

  • Physics of turbulence generation and sustenance in a boundary layer

    Chaoqun Liu;Yonghua Yan;Ping Lu

  • Skip Entry Trajectory Planning and Guidance

    Christopher W. Brunner;Ping Lu

  • Introducing Computational Guidance and Control

    Ping Lu

  • Regulation About Time-Varying Trajectories: Precision Entry Guidance Illustrated

    Ping Lu

  • Propellant-Optimal Powered Descent Guidance

    Ping Lu

  • Dynamic Lateral Entry Guidance Logic

    Zuojun Shen;Ping Lu

  • Rapid Optimal Multiburn Ascent Planning and Guidance

    Ping Lu;Brian J. Griffin;Gregory A. Dukeman;Frank R. Chavez

  • Highly Constrained Optimal Launch Ascent Guidance

    Ping Lu;Binfeng Pan

Frequent Co-Authors

Elmer G. Gilbert
Elmer G. Gilbert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen Peking University
Colin R. McInnes
Colin R. McInnes University of Glasgow
Hanspeter Schaub
Hanspeter Schaub University of Colorado Boulder
David B. Doman
David B. Doman United States Air Force Research Laboratory
John L. Crassidis
John L. Crassidis University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Besim Ogretmen
Besim Ogretmen Medical University of South Carolina

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