Xianghong Xue

薛向宏

Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department
School of Automation and Information Engineering
Xi'an University of Technology

My research focuses on cooperative planning and control of UAV swarms and spacecraft formations. My work is supported by the Youth Program (Category B) of the Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation and the Young Talent Support Program of the Xi'an Association for Science and Technology. I have published more than 30 papers in journals and conferences, over 20 of which are indexed by SCI or EI, filed or been granted more than 10 national invention patents, and contributed to one group standard. I have served as principal investigator on over 10 research projects, including the NSFC Young Scientists Fund, the Shaanxi Key R&D Program, the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. I received my Ph.D. from the School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, advised by Prof. Xiaokui Yue.

Research

Projects

All listed projects as principal investigator

Publications

2026

1. Connectivity preservation, collision avoidance, and control graph optimization for spacecraft formation flying with directed graphs

   T. Song, X. Xue*, Y. Ren, Y. Zhang, L. Mu

   Aerospace Science and Technology, 179: 113374, 2026　DOI

2. Connectivity preservation control for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles under communication delays

   B. Yuan, X. Xue*, Y. Yi, Y. Ren, Y. Zhang

   Asian Journal of Control, 2026　DOI

3. Cooperative suspension transport method for multiple UAVs under unknown wind disturbances

   Z. Shen, X. Tian, H. Xiong, B. Yuan, X. Xue*

   Aerospace Control, 44(4): 64–72, 2026 (in Chinese)　DOI

2025

1. Connectivity preservation and obstacle avoidance control for multiple quadrotor UAVs with limited communication distance

   X. Xue, B. Yuan, Y. Yi, L. Mu, Y. Zhang*

   Drones, 9(2): 136, 2025　PDF

2. A lightweight forest fire detection method based on UAV dual-modal images

   L. Mu, Y. Yang, Y. Zhang, X. Xue*, N. Feng

   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 22: 7001805, 2025　PDF

3. A non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for the optimization of LEO navigation augmentation constellations

   X. Xue*, T. Song, Y. Zhang, L. Mu

   Journal of Astronautics, 46(6): 1214–1227, 2025 (in Chinese)　PDF

2024

1. Connectivity preservation control for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles in the presence of bounded actuation

   X. Xue, B. Yuan, Y. Yi*, Y. Zhang, X. Yue, L. Mu

   ISA Transactions, 152: 28–37, 2024　PDF

2. Leader-following connectivity preservation and collision avoidance control for multiple spacecraft with bounded actuation

   X. Xue*, X. Wang, N. Han*

   Aerospace, 11(8): 612, 2024　PDF

3. Robust topological insulating property in C₂X-functionalized III–V monolayers

   X. Xue, Z. Lin, R. Gao, B. Yang, H. Wang, M. Han, N. Han

   Nanotechnology, 35(50): 505203, 2024

2021

1. Connectivity preservation and collision avoidance control for spacecraft formation flying in the presence of multiple obstacles

   X. Xue*, X. Yue*, J. Yuan

   Advances in Space Research, 67(11): 3504–3514, 2021　PDF

2020

1. Connectivity preservation and collision avoidance for leader-follower spacecraft formation flying

   X. Xue, X. Yue*, J. Yuan

   Journal of Astronautics, 41(7): 959–969, 2020 (in Chinese)　PDF

2019

1. Adaptive control for attitude coordination of leader-following rigid spacecraft systems with inertia parameter uncertainties

   X. Yue, X. Xue*, H. Wen, J. Yuan

   Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 32(3): 688–700, 2019　PDF

Invention Patents

Awards

1. 2015.04 – 2020.10

   Ph.D. in Flight Vehicle Design

   School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University

2. 2012.09 – 2015.03

   M.Eng. in Software Engineering

   Northwestern Polytechnical University

3. 2008.09 – 2012.07

   B.S. in Information and Computing Science

   Xi'an University of Technology

• Undergraduate lecture courses

  Robot Motion Planning, Discrete Mathematics

• Undergraduate practical course

  Comprehensive Course Design of Robot Planning and Control

• Student supervision

  Supervised students who won the National First Prize in the Robot Task Challenge (Micro UAV) of the China Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Competition, and the First Prize of the Northwest Division of the China Graduate Electronics Design Contest

• Society appointments

  Member, Technical Committee on Navigation, Guidance and Control, Chinese Association of Automation
  Young Member, Navigation, Guidance and Control Branch, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  Member, Education and Outreach Committee, Shaanxi Association of Automation
  Council Member, Xi'an Association of Automation

• Editorial board

  Young Editorial Board Member, Journal of Naval Aviation University

• Journal reviewer

  IEEE TAES, IEEE TFS, IEEE RA-L, Aerospace Science and Technology, ISA Transactions, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Applied Soft Computing, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Astronautics, and others