Patents Assigned to Tongji University
  • Publication number: 20220391788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a constructing method on the intelligent networked manufacturing mode with human-cyber-physical collaboration and fusion for a non-ferrous metal industry. According to transformational requirements of a non-ferrous metal industry, production and manufacturing activities are guided by constructing an intelligent manufacturing system with human-cyber-physical collaboration and fusion, an ecosystem service platform, and a sustainable business model. The intelligent manufacturing system with human-cyber-physical collaboration and fusion includes a device autonomous control system and a remote management analysis and decision-making system based on a new generation of AI. The device autonomous control system has functions of perception, intelligent analysis and decision-making, and intelligent control. The remote management analysis and decision-making system has functions of ubiquitous perception, real-time analysis, independent decision-making, and learning improvement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qing LIU, Zichun WANG, Min LIU, Jingwei WANG
  • Publication number: 20220381649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle data communication and interaction system and a construction method thereof. The system includes a first test vehicle placed in an environment perception test platform and a second test vehicle placed in a rotating hub test platform, an i-ECU, a VCU, and a vehicle bottom electronic control unit that are communicatively connected with each other are mounted on each of the first test vehicle and the second test vehicle, and a sensor is further mounted on the first test vehicle. The first test vehicle is communicatively connected to the second test vehicle, and specifically, the VCU or a network gateway is connected via the sensor, to implement a communication connection between the two test vehicles. Accordingly, the complexity of the connection with the VCU can be simplified, and real-time efficiency data interaction between two test vehicles may be implemented, so that the test vehicle has complete full vehicle performance and a real-time operation response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhuoping YU, Lu XIONG, Xichan ZHU, Gang XU, Biao WU
  • Publication number: 20220383755
    Abstract: Disclosed is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning method based on a millimeter-wave radar, including a calibration stage and a positioning stage. The calibration stage includes: acquiring ground coordinates of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and extracting feature points from radar point cloud data and get the ground coordinates of the feature points. The positioning stage includes: acquiring radar point cloud data of a current frame and pre-processing; acquiring UAV motion data and fuse the data with radar point cloud data; extracting characteristic line segment from radar point cloud data; registering the characteristic line segment of the current frame with the characteristic line segment of the previous frame, and finding matching feature points and newly added feature points; and obtaining the ground coordinates of UAV and the ground coordinates of newly added feature points based on the ground coordinates of matched feature points on the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bin HE, Gang LI, Runjie SHEN, Yanmin ZHOU, Jie CHEN, Shuping SONG
  • Patent number: 11494853
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for acquiring the water leakage amount of a leakage area in a water distribution system. In the method, a hydraulic model is coupled with monitored data, and the water leakage amounts of different areas in the water distribution system are obtained through inversion by optimizing the spatial distribution of water leakage amounts. In addition to the coupling of the hydraulic model with the monitored data, virtual sectorization and pipe leakage risk assessment are used. By using a minimum difference between a simulated value and a monitored value at a pressure measurement point as a target, the water leakage amounts of different areas in the water distribution system are calculated by an optimization algorithm. Compared with the prior art, the present invention actualizes the effective identification of leakage areas in a water distribution system with a high leakage rate (i.e., with many leakage points).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tao Tao, Jing Ai, Kui Zhang, Hexiang Yan, Kunlun Xin, Shuping Li
  • Patent number: 11486690
    Abstract: A digital sensor for pre-warning of multistage breakage-triggered deformation threshold includes first tension rods, second tension rods, an RFID chip, and a brittle fracture module; the brittle fracture module includes a bottom plate and a plurality of resistors, where two ends of the bottom plate are fixed to the first and second tension rods, and the plurality of resistors forming a lumped parallel circuit are parallelly arranged on the bottom plate; the RFID chip is connected to two ends of the lumped parallel circuit. Strength of the middle cross section of the bottom plate is reduced in the way. The bottom plate will be fractured by being tensioned when the first tension rods and the second tension rods move away from each other with the deformation of the tension members. The resistors are connected into the lumped parallel circuit through brittle wires with different preset slack amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11485651
    Abstract: A movably-connected and continuously-connected apparatus for uninterrupted high-salinity wastewater purification includes a high-salinity wastewater adsorption treatment system and a movably-connected drainage system embedded in the treatment system. The high-salinity wastewater adsorption treatment system includes four purification zone partition plates, a hollow cylindrical purification zone, a cylindrical water distribution sump located in an axial center of the purification zone, a rotating shaft, a motor, a fixed support and a water tank; the four purification zone partition plates include a first partition plate forming an angle of 135° with a horizontal direction from left to right, a second partition plate forming an angle of 45° with the horizontal direction from left to right, a third partition plate forming an angle of 135° with a vertical direction from bottom to top and a fourth partition plate forming an angle of 135° with the vertical direction from bottom to top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yalei Zhang, Xuefei Zhou, Jiabin Chen, Yinchuan Yang, Lei Wang, Xinmiao Zhang, Wenbiao Wang, Yegang Chen
  • Publication number: 20220340467
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for enhancing methanogenesis in anaerobic digestion of municipal sludge by utilizing a filter screen structure, comprising: arranging a filter screen structure with titanium or titanium alloy as the framework and Fe3O4 as the coating in the anaerobic digestion system to accelerate the rate of hydrolysis and acidification, and increase the proportion of methane in biogas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Tongji University
    Inventors: Xiaohu Dai, Lei Li, Ying Xu, Lipeng Dong, Linke Zheng, Bin Dong, Lingling Dai
  • Patent number: 11479488
    Abstract: A nano zero valent iron biological coupling device for organic wastewater includes a continuous flow stirred reactor, a flocculation sedimentation device and a membrane bioreactor arranged in series. A nano zero valent iron feeding device is arranged in the continuous flow stirred reactor, a flocculant and a coagulant aid are arranged in the flocculation sedimentation device, and a microbial reaction liquid is arranged in the membrane bioreactor. A nano iron biological coupling process includes: S1, placing the organic wastewater in the continuous flow stirred reactor, adding the nano zero valent iron, stirring and mixing; S2, placing the organic wastewater treated after S1 in the flocculation sedimentation device; S3, placing the organic wastewater treated after S2 in the membrane bioreactor and interacting with the microbial reaction liquid; S4, performing a membrane separation on the organic wastewater treated after S3 in the membrane bioreactor to obtain purified organic wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nuo Liu, Weixian Zhang, Airong Liu, Jing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220332323
    Abstract: A method for adaptive estimation of a road surface adhesion coefficient for a vehicle with complex excitation conditions taken into consideration comprises the following steps: 1) designing an estimator according to a single-wheel dynamics model of a vehicle, and estimating a longitudinal tire force and a road surface peak adhesion coefficient under longitudinal excitation; 2) designing an estimator according to a two-degree-of-freedom kinematic model of the vehicle, and estimating a tire aligning moment and a road surface peak adhesion coefficient under excitation of a lateral force; and 3) determining an excitation condition met by the vehicle according to a vehicle state parameter, performing fuzzy inference to obtain limits achievable by current longitudinal and lateral tire forces, and designing a fusion observer to fuse estimation results. The method achieves favorable robustness, improves real-time capability, and can be performed quickly and accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bo LENG, Da JIN, Xing YANG, Lu XIONG, Zhuoping YU
  • Patent number: 11472725
    Abstract: A recovery system of composite powder carrier in HPB municipal wastewater treatment includes a biochemical tank and a concentration tank. The composite powder carrier is added to the biochemical tank for biochemically treating on the wastewater. The mixed liquid is then made to flow into the concentration tank. The supernatant obtained after filtration is then discharged. The concentrated sludge is returned to the biochemical tank, and the excess concentrated sludge is transported to a separator. The separator separates the substances with large specific gravity from those having smaller specific gravity, and the substances with large specific gravity are recycled to the biochemical tank for reuse. Matter having smaller specific gravity is discharged. The separator can be used to separate the composite powder carriers for recycling, which improves the utilization rate of the composite powder carriers and reduces the operation cost of the HPB technology for wastewater treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: TONGJI UNIVERSITY, HUNAN SANYOU ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiaohu Dai, Xiaoli Chai, Bin Lu, Dan Hou, Hongbo Han, Yue Mou, Jing Yi
  • Publication number: 20220327388
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for real time optimization and parallel computing of model prediction control based on a computing chart, comprising the following steps: building a prediction model of a system state amount and building a target function of a system; building a parallel computing architecture for model prediction control of a prediction model and the target function and employing a triggering parallel computing method by the parallel computing architecture to synchronously compute the prediction model and the target function; and solving and computing a gradient with a manner of back propagation and using a gradient descent method to optimize a control amount of the system and realize real time optimal control of the system. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure greatly improves a computing efficiency, ensures real time property of a model prediction controller, and extends application fields of model prediction control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Chen, Qiang Meng, Lin Zhang, Haoqi Hu, Bin Li
  • Publication number: 20220326720
    Abstract: The embodiment of this present disclosure provides a control method of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hovering in tunnel, which comprises the following steps: acquiring hovering information of hovering position of UAV; acquiring the position information of the current position of the UAV; determining flight parameters based on hovering information and position information. The flight parameters are used to control the UAV to move from the current position to the hovering position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bin HE, Gang LI, Runjie SHEN, Jie CHEN, Zhipeng WANG, Ping LU, Yimin LOU
  • Publication number: 20220324443
    Abstract: A parallel computing method for man-machine coordinated steering control of a smart vehicle based on risk assessment is provided, comprising the following steps: building a lateral kinetic equation model of a vehicle; building a target function by targeting at minimizing an offset distance of a vehicle driving track from a lane center line and making a change in a front wheel steering angle and a longitudinal acceleration as small as possible in a driving process; building a parallel computing architecture of a prediction model and the target function, and employing a triggering parallel computing method; solving and computing a gradient with a manner of back propagation and using a gradient descent method to obtain an optimal control amount of the front wheel steering angle and an optimal control amount of the longitudinal acceleration; and computing a driving weight, obtaining a desired front wheel steering angle and completing real time control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Chen, Bin Li, Qiang Meng, Lin Zhang, Yanjun Huang
  • Patent number: 11468771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a variable speed limit (VSL), ramp metering (RM), and a collaborative method of variable speed limit and ramp metering (VSL-RM) on expressways based on crash risk, including the following steps: 1) calculating the crash risk index within each control step, activating the VSL-RM strategy when the crash risk index exceeds the threshold of the crash risk index, and 2) conduct a multiple-ramp metering strategy, determine the ramps to be controlled and the start-up time for RM, and calculate the integrated ramp regulation rate; 3) execute a variable speed limit strategy to obtain the displayed speed limit value for the segment downstream of the cluster and adjust the ramp regulation rate, mainline desired speed and mainline speed of the segment for the next time period accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wanjing Ma, Ziliang He, Ling Wang, Chunhui Yu
  • Publication number: 20220317171
    Abstract: An active probe and a method for measuring space charge distribution of polymer are provided. The active probe includes a case, electric pulse transmission unit, piezoelectric ceramic sheet, quartz glass block and signal-extracting aluminum block. An outer surface of the quartz glass block is adhered with a conductive material in contact with the case. An anode of the piezoelectric ceramic sheet is connected to the electric pulse transmission unit, and a cathode of the piezoelectric ceramic sheet is connected to the conductive material on the outer surface of the quartz glass block. The signal-extracting aluminum block is respectively connected with the quartz glass block and the measured signal extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yewen ZHANG, Zebin CAO, Jingxian XU, Feihu ZHENG
  • Patent number: 11458440
    Abstract: A thin-film composite polyamide reverse osmosis membrane with anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling effects and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The preparation method includes: dissolving a highly water-stable metal organic framework CuBTTri in an n-hexane solution containing trimesoyl chloride by ultrasonic wave, immersing a polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane in an aqueous solution of m-phenylene diamine and taking out, and then immersing the ultrafiltration membrane in the trimesoyl chloride-n-hexane solution containing the aforementioned metal organic framework for reaction and modification, so as to obtain the thin-film composite polyamide reverse osmosis membrane. The resulting composite reverse osmosis membrane integrated with the anti-bacterial metal organic framework CuBTTri has a high reverse osmosis membrane permeability and possesses greatly improved and persistent anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: TONGJI UNIVERSITY, TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhiwei Wang, Yue Wen, Hongwei Zhang, Jie Wang, Yingqing Chen, Zhichao Wu
  • Patent number: 11453607
    Abstract: A process for enhanced anaerobic digestion of sludge by alcoholization of food waste, comprising steps of: (1) ethanol prefermentation of food waste—feeding the food waste having been crushed into a uniform grain size into an ethanol production reactor, where the food waste is subjected to rapid and efficient anaerobic fermentation activated by addition of yeast and pH adjustment to produce ethanol and obtain a fermentation broth and a fermentation residue; (2) sludge pretreatment—pretreating the sludge after mixing with the fermentation residue; and (3) methanogenesis of anaerobic digestion—subjecting products resulting from the sludge pretreatment to be mixed with the fermentation broth and then to methanogenesis of anaerobic digestion in a methane production reactor. With this process, the sludge and the food waste can be treated efficiently via multi-phase reactions, and the resource recovery and biogas quality can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaohu Dai, Lei Li, Jun Gao, Ying Xu, Bin Dong, Lingling Dai, Zhigang Liu
  • Publication number: 20220297036
    Abstract: A method for recycling a scrapped polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane through chemical cleaning-structural transformation-hydrophilicity is disclosed, which can extend the service life of scrapped PVDF membrane materials (namely, membrane at the end of service life). The method includes the following steps: cleaning a scrapped membrane with sodium hypochlorite and citric acid; treating the membrane with a structural transformation agent, where, irreversible contaminants are washed away while the PVDF membrane is subjected to pore expansion and hydrophilization; and with self-polymerization of dopamine on a membrane surface, further improving the hydrophilicity of the membrane surface, enhancing the anti-contamination performance, and repairing damaged points on the surface of the scrapped PVDF membrane produced during long-term operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Tongji University
    Inventors: Zhiwei WANG, Chenxin TIAN, Ruobin DAI, Tianlin WANG, Jiansuxuan CHEN
  • Patent number: 11451835
    Abstract: An image coding method and apparatus and an image decoding method and apparatus are provided by the present invention. The image coding method includes: implementing matching coding for pixels of an input video image to obtain one or more matching relationship parameters, herein the matching relationship parameters are parameters used in a process of constructing predicted values and/or reconstructed values of the pixels in the image; mapping the matching relationship parameters to obtain mapped values of the matching relationship parameters; and performing entropy coding on the mapped values of the matching relationship parameters. The present invention addresses the problem existing in the conventional art which is caused by the direct implementation of entropy coding for matching relationship parameters and achieves a good data compression effect through entropy coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Tongji University, ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Lin, Ming Li, Guoqiang Shang, Zhao Wu
  • Patent number: 11442418
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fire test system and method for tunnel structure based on real-time fusion of numerical and physical spaces. The fire test system includes: a physical test unit, to perform a holographic fire test on the typical segment components of tunnel structure system in a physical space, to obtain holographic characteristic parameter data of the typical components; a numerical analysis unit, to establish a full-scale numerical model of the tunnel-stratum composite system in a numerical space, to obtain multi-field coupling boundary data of the typical components; and a fusion control unit, to control and adjust a multi-field coupling boundary of the physical space according to the multi-field coupling boundary data, and to update and adjust an input parameter of the numerical space according to the holographic characteristic parameter data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhiguo Yan, Hehua Zhu, Tong Zhang, Wenqi Ding, Yi Shen