Mingfei Lu

Dr. Mingfei Lu

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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 May 2024 in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
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MZMin Zhou
Min Zhou
MLMingfei Lu
Mingfei Lu
Guanjie HuGuanjie Hu
Guanjie Hu
ZGZongyi Guo
Zongyi Guo
JGJinaguo Guo
Jinaguo Guo
This work focuses on addressing the challenges of integrated guidance and control (IGC) for strap-down high-speed missiles with nonlinearities and field-of-view constraints. To achieve this, a data-driven prediction model using the Koopman operator is developed, which exhibits high accuracy in capturing the significant nonlinearities of the investigated high-speed missiles. Furthermore, the field-of-view restrictions imposed by the strap-down seeker are addressed by introducing a Lyapunov-based model predictive control (LMPC) scheme based on the linear Koopman prediction model. To enhance the robustness of the system, a disturbance observer is integrated into the Koopman-operator-based LMPC (KLMPC), enabling the estimation and compensation of disturbances. A KLMPC-based IGC (KLMPC-IGC) design framework is then developed to solve the constrained IGC problem, ensuring the stability and robustness of the closed-loop system. Numerical simulation results validate the higher prediction accuracy of the proposed linear prediction model compared with traditional local linearization prediction, as well as demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented approach.

2 September 2024 in Information Fusion
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MLMingfei Lu
Mingfei Lu
QZQi Zhang
Qi Zhang
BCBadong Chen
Badong Chen

3 August 2024 in Pattern Recognition
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MLMingfei Lu
Mingfei Lu
LXLei Xing
Lei Xing
BCBadong Chen
Badong Chen

15 October 2026 in Aerospace
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SYSi Yong
Si Yong
MLMingfei Lu
Mingfei Lu
JLJing Li
Jing Li
YHYang Hu
Yang Hu
GLGuijiang Li
Guijiang Li
WZWang Zhaokui
Wang Zhaokui
Fleet-level prognostics and health management (PHM) requires decisions that extend beyond diagnosis, remaining useful life estimation, and maintenance timing. Mission commitment, aircraft dispatch, maintenance, and spare-parts support consume the same finite sustainment capacity but operate at different temporal scales. This study investigates whether explicitly separating a mission-horizon commitment decision from day-to-day sustainment execution improves fleet-level decision quality, and under which operating regimes such a hierarchy is valuable. We develop a mission-horizon hierarchical reinforcement learning (MH-HRL) framework in which a learned weekly policy selects a portfolio of missions from a seven-day forecast and specifies a coarse sustainment posture, while a fixed daily executor implements aircraft assignment, maintenance prioritization, and replenishment decisions. Fleet evolution is represented by a next-event discrete-event simulator with stochastic mission arrivals, degradation/failure processes, repairs, and logistics lead times. Five decision policies—reactive rule-based control, rolling-horizon planning, flat PPO, a hierarchy without the learned posture signal, and the full MH-HRL policy—are evaluated over nine mission-load/support-capacity regimes using 10 paired common-random-number seeds (450 formal runs). The hierarchical policies consistently improve the composite mission-readiness-cost utility, with the full policy outperforming the rule baseline in all nine regimes after Holm correction. The benefit is not obtained by maximizing mission acceptance: the hierarchical policy accepts fewer missions but achieves higher accepted-mission success and fleet availability while substantially reducing failure-driven sustainment cost. Ablation further shows that approximately 97% of the Smart vs. Rule improvement is attributable to the weekly daily temporal decomposition rather than the additional posture signal. These results support that the principal value of hierarchy in the studied fleet-PHM setting is long-horizon commitment control, and its marginal value increases with mission pressure.

22 December 2025 in Applied Soft Computing
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MLMingfei Lu
Mingfei Lu
JLJun Lei
Jun Lei
BCBadong Chen
Badong Chen

6 December 2025 in Applied Soft Computing
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QZQi Zhang
Qi Zhang
MLMingfei Lu
Mingfei Lu
JXJingmin Xin
Jingmin Xin
BCBadong Chen
Badong Chen