Junyue Tang

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Junyue Tang is a leading figure in planetary drilling and sampling technologies, with a focused expertise in developing intelligent, adaptive drilling systems for extraterrestrial environments. His primary research areas include real-time drilling state monitoring, autonomous control strategies for unknown geological media, and innovative coring methods for lunar and planetary exploration. Tang’s most impactful work, "A real-time recognition based drilling strategy for lunar exploration" (2014, 13 citations), addresses the critical challenge of drilling into undetermined lunar regolith by proposing a control system that adapts to changing subsurface conditions, significantly enhancing mission safety and sample acquisition reliability. He further advanced the field with his 2016 study on drilling states monitoring for a Planetary Drilling & Coring Testbed (PDCT), which introduced methods to prevent serious overload faults through online monitoring and tuning. Notably, Tang contributed to China’s adoption of the novel flexible tube coring (FTC) method, a key innovation for deep soil sampling. His work, though niche, has laid essential groundwork for autonomous planetary drilling, directly supporting future lunar and Mars sample-return missions.