Welcome to my academic website! I am Zhidong Lu, a postdoc researcher at the Technical University of Munich, Institute of Flight System Dynamics. My research interests lie in flight dynamics and control. I'm particularly focused on developing advanced analysis and control methodologies for novel aircraft concepts, such as eVTOL vehicles.
Here, you'll find more information about my research projects, publications, and other academic activities. Feel free to explore my published work and to reach out if you have any questions or potential collaboration opportunities.
Research Interests
- electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft (eVTOL)
- Flight Dynamics and Control (Control Allocation in particular)
- Trajectory Optimization
- Nonlinear System Reachability Analysis
- Uncertainty Quantification
Publications
An Adaptive Command Scaling Method for Incremental Flight Control Allocation
Zhidong Lu, Jiannan Zhang, Hangxu Li, Florian Holzapfel
Actuators, vol. 14, MDPI, 2025, p. 579
A virtual command protection strategy for pseudo-inverse flight control allocation
Zhidong Lu, Jiannan Zhang, Hangxu Li, Florian Holzapfel
Aerospace Science and Technology, Elsevier, 2025, p. 111134
Controllability Evaluation for VTOL Aircraft in Velocity Envelope: A Distance-Based Metric
Zhidong Lu, Haichao Hong, Felix Schweighofer, Florian Holzapfel
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 47, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2024, pp. 1620--1633
Maneuverability set estimation and trajectory feasibility evaluation for evtol aircraft
Zhidong Lu, Haichao Hong, Johannes Diepolder, Florian Holzapfel
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 46, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2023, pp. 1184--1196
Multi-phase vertical take-off and landing trajectory optimization with feasible initial guesses
Zhidong Lu, Haichao Hong, Florian Holzapfel
Aerospace, vol. 11, MDPI, 2023, p. 39
Flight envelope prediction via optimal control-based reachability analysis
Zhidong Lu, Haichao Hong, Matthias Gerdts, Florian Holzapfel
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 45, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2022, pp. 185--195
Energy-efficient incremental control allocation for transition flight via quadratic programming
Zhidong Lu, Hangxu Li, Ruichen He, Florian Holzapfel
International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, Springer, 2022, pp. 4940--4951
Stability and performance analysis for SISO incremental flight control
Zhidong Lu, Florian Holzapfel
arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00129, 2020