Fanghua Jiang

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Fanghua Jiang is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Fanghua Jiang has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 50 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Fanghua Jiang's work include Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (56 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (44 papers) and Space Satellite Systems and Control (40 papers). Fanghua Jiang is often cited by papers focused on Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (56 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (44 papers) and Space Satellite Systems and Control (40 papers). Fanghua Jiang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Fanghua Jiang's co-authors include Hexi Baoyin, Junfeng Li, Lin Cheng, Zhenbo Wang, Gao Tang, Junfeng Li, Junfeng Li, Tieding Guo, Di Wu and Yu Song and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics and Advances in Space Research.

In The Last Decade

Fanghua Jiang

61 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Practical Techniques for Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with Homotopic Approach

2012 276 citations Fanghua Jiang, Hexi Baoyin et al. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fanghua Jiang China	20	1.4k	821	147	119	85	65	1.6k
David Geller United States	18	1.2k 0.8×	396 0.5×	210 1.4×	76 0.6×	181 2.1×	57	1.3k
Robert G. Melton United States	9	1.1k 0.8×	688 0.8×	112 0.8×	41 0.3×	112 1.3×	57	1.3k
Richard Linares United States	16	780 0.6×	388 0.5×	79 0.5×	135 1.1×	193 2.3×	92	1.0k
Dong Qiao China	18	879 0.6×	553 0.7×	131 0.9×	79 0.7×	144 1.7×	116	1.1k
Roberto Armellin New Zealand	19	1.0k 0.7×	602 0.7×	97 0.7×	63 0.5×	265 3.1×	152	1.3k
Mauro Pontani Italy	17	1.1k 0.8×	503 0.6×	74 0.5×	96 0.8×	32 0.4×	93	1.2k
Ron Wiltshire United Kingdom	8	1.4k 1.0×	896 1.1×	230 1.6×	48 0.4×	39 0.5×	11	1.7k
Hongwei Yang China	18	666 0.5×	491 0.6×	53 0.4×	104 0.9×	53 0.6×	94	930
Riccardo Bevilacqua United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	701 0.9×	150 1.0×	29 0.2×	20 0.2×	70	1.2k
Richard Linares United States	14	404 0.3×	289 0.4×	76 0.5×	84 0.7×	113 1.3×	59	681

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Zhang, Nan, Di Wu, Xuan Xie, et al.. (2025). Sustainable Asteroid Mining: On the design of GTOC12 problem and summary of results. Astrodynamics. 9(1). 3–17. 8 indexed citations

Jiang, Fanghua, et al.. (2024). Low Frequency Hierarchical Cooperative Impulse Control for Gravitational Wave Detector Formation Keeping. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 47(6). 1167–1181. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Di, et al.. (2024). Multiphase Homotopic Approaches for Best Solution to Low-Thrust Geocentric Trajectories. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 60(4). 3979–3992. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Di, et al.. (2024). Costate Scaling Method for Mayer-Form Multirendezvous Trajectory Optimization Problem. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 61(3). 878–888.

Wu, Di, et al.. (2023). A pseudoequinoctial shaping method with fourier approximation for low-thrust trajectory optimization. Advances in Space Research. 73(1). 126–142. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Nan, et al.. (2023). Global Trajectory Optimization of Multispacecraft Successive Rendezvous Using Multitree Search. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 47(3). 503–517. 6 indexed citations

Wu, Di, et al.. (2023). Minimum-Time Rendezvous via Simplified Initial Costate Normalization and Auxiliary Orbital Transfer. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 46(8). 1627–1636. 6 indexed citations

Li, Hengnian, et al.. (2023). Perturbed low-thrust geostationary orbit transfer guidance via polynomial costate estimation. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 37(3). 181–193. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Di, et al.. (2023). Minimum-Time Low-Thrust Geocentric Transfer with Longitude Estimation and Costate Prediction. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 47(1). 175–186. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Nan, et al.. (2022). GTOC 11: Results from Tsinghua University and Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering. Acta Astronautica. 202. 819–828. 13 indexed citations

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Jiang, Fanghua, et al.. (2022). Orbital Stability and Invariant Manifolds on Distant Retrograde Orbits around Ganymede and Nearby Higher-Period Orbits. Aerospace. 9(8). 454–454. 9 indexed citations

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Wu, Di, et al.. (2022). DNN estimation of low-thrust transfer time: Focusing on fast transfers in multi-asteroid rendezvous missions. Acta Astronautica. 204. 518–530. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Di, et al.. (2022). Analytical shaping method for low-thrust rendezvous trajectory using cubic spline functions. Acta Astronautica. 193. 511–520. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Hengnian, et al.. (2022). Learning-Based Polynomial Approximation of Minimum-Time Low-Thrust Transfers to Geostationary Orbit. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 59(3). 2388–2401. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Di, Lin Cheng, Fanghua Jiang, & Junfeng Li. (2021). Rapid generation of low-thrust many-revolution earth-center trajectories based on analytical state-based control. Acta Astronautica. 187. 338–347. 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lin, Zhenbo Wang, Fanghua Jiang, & Junfeng Li. (2020). Adaptive neural network control of nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics. Advances in Space Research. 67(3). 1114–1123. 41 indexed citations

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Jiang, Fanghua, Gao Tang, & Junfeng Li. (2017). Improving Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization by Adjoint Estimation with Shape-Based Path. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 40(12). 3282–3289. 54 indexed citations

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Jiang, Fanghua, et al.. (2015). Autonomous Navigation of Mars Probes by Combining Optical Data of Viewing Martian Moons and SST Data. Journal of Navigation. 68(6). 1019–1040. 12 indexed citations

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Gong, Shengping, et al.. (2014). Time-optimal rendezvous transfer trajectory for restricted cone-angle range solar sails. Acta Mechanica Sinica. 30(5). 628–635. 8 indexed citations

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Jiang, Fanghua, Hexi Baoyin, & Junfeng Li. (2012). Practical Techniques for Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with Homotopic Approach. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 35(1). 245–258. 276 indexed citations breakdown →

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