Patents Assigned to Southeast University
  • Patent number: 11701289
    Abstract: A rehabilitation glove based on a bidirectional driver of a honeycomb imitating structure, including five bidirectional drivers and a cotton glove. The drivers are fixed to a back of the glove through hook and loop fasteners. Each driver includes a hollow buckling air bag in a continuous bent state, a middle guide layer in a continuous bent state and a hollow stretching air bag. The buckling air bag and the middle guide layer are symmetrically arranged, and the stretching air bag in a straightened state is arranged below the middle guide layer. A novel bidirectional driver of a honeycomb imitating structure is provided, which may provide a patient with rehabilitation training in two degrees of freedom: buckling and stretching. A control algorithm of the bidirectional driver is further provided to perform force control output for the driver, which may better help the patient recover hand functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Jianwei Lai, Huijun Li, Hong Zeng, Baoguo Xu, Ting Wu
  • Patent number: 11690773
    Abstract: A wearable upper limb rehabilitation training robot with precise force control includes a wearable belt, a multi-degree-of-freedom robot arm, and a control box. The robot is worn on the waist of a person by using a belt, and driven by active actuators, to implement active and passive rehabilitation training in such degrees of freedom as adduction/abduction/anteflexion/extension of left and right shoulder joints and anteflexion/extension of left and right elbow joints. In addition, a force/torque sensor is mounted on a tip of the robot arm, to obtain a force between the tip of the robot arm and the human hand during rehabilitation training as a feedback signal, to adjust an operating state of the robot, thereby realizing the precise force control during the rehabilitation training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Yiting Mo, Huanhuan Qin, Huijun Li, Baoguo Xu
  • Patent number: 11685547
    Abstract: An autonomous catapult-assisted take-off, recycling, and reuse device and method of a flapping-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. The device includes a base, an attitude adjusting mechanism, a catapult mechanism, a recycling mechanism, a control processing unit, a power supply module, and a sensor unit, where the attitude adjusting mechanism includes a connector, a counterweight, an adjusting motor, an attitude adjusting input gear, an attitude adjusting output gear, an attitude adjusting output gear shaft, and an installation platform; the catapult mechanism includes a catapult motor, a catapult motor frame, a pulley, a pull rope, a winch, a pull rope fixing part, a flapping-wing aircraft fixing part, two slide bars, two compression springs, and a catapult gear set; and the recycling mechanism includes a recycling motor, a recycling mechanical arm, a recycling platform, two sprockets, and a recycling gear set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Maozeng Zhang, Aiguo Song, Fanzhang Huang
  • Patent number: 11686860
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for quickly acquiring a highly reliable integer solution for satellite positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Xianwen Yu
  • Patent number: 11685868
    Abstract: A catalytic cracking gasoline upgrading method is provided. First, in the presence of a prehydrogenation catalyst, the full-range FCC gasoline undergoes prehydrogenation in a prehydrogenation reactor to remove diolefins, mercaptans and sulfides, and then the prehydrogenation product undergoes selective hydrodesulfurization in the presence of a hydrodesulfurization-isomerization catalyst, and straight-chain olefins are isomerized into single-branched olefins or single-branched alkanes, thus obtaining a low-olefin, ultralow-sulfur and high-octane clean gasoline product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tinghai Wang, Yuanyuan Yue, Xiaojun Bao, Xueli Wang, Jie Liu, Pei Yuan, Haibo Zhu, Zhengshuai Bai
  • Patent number: 11687699
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for modeling sequence impedance of a modular multilevel converter (MMC) under phase locked loop (PLL) coupling. The method includes the following steps: S1, establishing a circuit topology model; S2, establishing a PLL output characteristic model; S3, establishing a PI controller output control small signal model under a dq axis; S4, deducing a modulation small signal; and S5, calculating MMC port impedance. According to the method, a precise MMC port impedance model is established by analyzing a double mirror frequency coupling effect in the output of a modulation signal in a control link caused by a phase angle disturbance and comprehensively considering the combination of the multi-harmonic coupling effect of an MMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fujin Deng, Yun Zhou, Hanlu Zhang, Chengkai Liu, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11680863
    Abstract: A method for reducing hysteresis error and high frequency noise error of capacitive tactile sensors includes the following steps: step 1: calibration, specifically including positive stroke calibration to form n positive stroke curves and negative stroke calibration to form n negative stroke curves; step 2: averaging, specifically including positive stroke averaging to form an average positive stroke curve, negative stroke averaging to form an average negative stroke curve, and comprehensive averaging to form a comprehensive stroke curve; step 3: fitting modeling, to obtain a positive stroke fitting function, a negative stroke fitting function, and a comprehensive fitting function; step 4: measurement; step 5: noise filtering; step 6: stroke direction discrimination; and step 7: resolving, to obtain the force at the current time by using a corresponding fitting function based on the stroke direction discrimination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Shuyan Yang, Baoguo Xu, Huijun Li, Hong Zeng, Lifeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11664013
    Abstract: It discloses a speech feature reuse-based storing and calculating compression method for a keyword-spotting CNN, and belongs to the technical filed of calculating, reckoning or counting. If the updated row number of input data is equal to a convolution step size, every time new input data arrive, an input layer of a neural network replaces the earliest part of the input data with the new input data and meanwhile adjusts an addressing sequence of the input data, thereby performing an operation on the input data and corresponding convolution kernels in an arrival sequence of the input data, and an operation result is stored in an intermediate data memory of the neural network to update corresponding data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Weiwei Shan
  • Patent number: 11661573
    Abstract: A microfluidic chip for culturing and real-time monitoring of multicellular tissues and use method thereof. The chip comprises a glass substrate layer, and a PDMS microchannel layer located on the glass substrate layer, wherein the glass substrate layer comprises a glass substrate, and a plurality of microelectrodes thereon; the PDMS microchannel comprises a plurality of independent microfluidic channels; the microelectrodes on the glass substrate are in one-to-one correspondence with the microfluidic channels in the PDMS microchannel layer; and the microelectrodes are electrically connected to an external circuit. The use method comprises: cell capture, cell or tissue culture, electrical impedance spectroscopy detection, and tissue release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhen Zhu, Qiaodan Li, Dingxin Jin, Feng Yu, Yangye Geng
  • Patent number: 11658711
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a skywave large-scale MIMO communication method, model, and system. A skywave communication base station in a short waveband is constructed using a large-scale antenna array, wherein skywave large-scale MIMO communication is carried out between the skywave communication base station and a user terminal in a coverage area by ionospheric reflection. The skywave communication base station determines a spacing of the large-scale antenna array according to a maximum operating frequency, and communicates with the user terminal based on a TDD communication mode, wherein a skywave large-scale MIMO signal is transmitted based on an OFDM modulation mode or a power efficiency improvement modulation mode. The skywave communication base station selects a communication carrier frequency within a short waveband range according to a real-time ionospheric channel characteristic, and adaptively selects an OFDM modulation parameter and a signal frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiqi Gao, Xianglong Yu, Anan Lu
  • Publication number: 20230156072
    Abstract: An offloading method, of a satellite-to-ground edge computing task, assisted by a satellite and a high-altitude platform can offload a computing task of a ground user equipment (GUE) to a low earth-orbit satellite (LEO SAT), to meet a computing requirement of the GUE and to reduce latency and energy consumption. The method includes four main steps: 1. The GUE selects an associated high-altitude platform. 2. The GUE uses multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) transmission to offload the computing task to the high-altitude platform. 3. The high-altitude platform may also use the MIMO transmission to offload the computing task of the GUE to the LEO SAT. 4. The high-altitude platform and the LEO SAT cooperate to process the computing task of GUE, and reasonably allocate a computing resource to reduce energy consumption; and in MIMO edge computing, the GUE or the high-altitude platform uses the same time-domain and frequency-domain resource .
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junbo WANG, Changfeng DING, Hua ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230155449
    Abstract: A force-balancing magnetic bearing with an adjustable bias magnetic field for a stator permanent magnet motor is provided. The force-balancing magnetic bearing includes four permanent magnetic poles and four electromagnetic poles, wherein a magnetic field energy of the four permanent magnetic poles is sourced from a stator permanent magnet of the stator permanent magnet motor, each permanent magnetic pole is formed by a left permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a right permanent-magnet magnetic bridge, a magnetic adjusting section, an electromagnetic pole stator, an electromagnetic pole and permanent magnetic pole isolation plate, a permanent-magnet two-side magnetic pole connection section, a left permanent-magnet magnetic pole and a right permanent-magnet magnetic pole, a magnetic flux of each permanent magnetic pole is adjusted by the magnetic adjusting section, and the four electromagnetic poles are adjusted by currents introduced into electromagnetic pole winding coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei HUA, Zhiheng ZHANG, Qifan XU
  • Publication number: 20230156963
    Abstract: The invention provides a two-phase flow active and passive multi-level data center cabinet cooling device and method, wherein the system includes a cabinet cooling device, a condensate system, a waste heat recovery device, a liquid reservoir, a liquid pump, a gas chamber, a fluid working medium, and a corresponding pipeline. The system constitute a closed loop, the loop is filled with nitrogen to maintain a low pressure state, and the pipeline fluid is driven by the liquid pump to flow; the gas chamber maintains a relatively stable air pressure in the two-phase flow loop; the liquid reservoir is connected with the gas chamber, providing an enough gas space to make a phase change occur more easily; the cabinet cooling device can be switched between an active mode and a passive mode to minimize PUE under good heat dissipation capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xu LIU, Junming DU, Haitao JIANG, Chengbin ZHANG, Dongping YIN
  • Publication number: 20230152418
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for estimating the air propagation delay of a direct wave, wherein an azimuth, an elevation angle and a total delay of a multipath wave reaching a receiving end are obtained through a receiving device; a departure angle of a reflected wave is obtained using a geometric relationship of wave reflection; a hypothetical point on a direct wave ray is selected as a transmitting end, and hereby the air propagation delay of the direct wave and the position of a reflection point of the reflected wave are calculated; the propagation delay and distance of the reflected wave are calculated according to the total delay of the direct wave and the reflected wave and the position of the hypothetical point. The invention can obtain the air propagation delay of the direct wave, thereby obtaining a propagation distance of the direct wave and fulfilling the requirements of ranging and positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Haiming WANG, Bensheng YANG, Wenhao WU
  • Patent number: 11648946
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an intelligent vehicle platoon lane change performance evaluation method. First, an intelligent vehicle platoon lane change performance test scenario is established; secondly, a three-degree of freedom nonlinear dynamics model is established according to motion characteristics of intelligent vehicles in a platoon lane change process; further, an improved adaptive unscented Kalman filter algorithm is utilized to perform filter estimation on state variables of positions and velocities of platoon vehicles; and finally, based on accurately recursive vehicle motion state parameters, evaluation indexes for platoon lane change performance are proposed and quantified, and an evaluation system for platoon lane change performance is constructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xu Li, Weiming Hu, Qimin Xu, Kun Wei
  • Patent number: 11650077
    Abstract: A strict reverse navigation method for optimal estimation of fine alignment is provided. The strict reverse navigation method including: establishing an adaptive control function; performing a forward navigation calculation process; performing a reverse navigation calculation process; and performing the adaptive control for a number of forward and reverse calculations. The strict reverse navigation method shortens an alignment time for the optimal estimation of fine alignment while ensuring an alignment accuracy. The strict reverse navigation method provided effectively solves a problem that an error of an initial value of filtering in an initial stage of the optimal estimation of fine alignment affects convergence speeds of subsequent stages. In the initial stage, a larger number of the forward and reverse navigation calculations are adopted to reduce an error of the initial value as much as possible and increase a convergence speed of the filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiyuan Chen, Xin Shao, Xinhua Tang, Xuefen Zhu, Xiaosu Xu
  • Patent number: 11650117
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a six-dimensional force sensor with high sensitivity and low inter-dimensional coupling, including a clockwise or counterclockwise swastika-shaped beam, vertical beams, a rectangular outer frame, and strain gauges; the clockwise or counterclockwise swastika-shaped beam includes a cross-shaped transverse beam and four rectangular transverse beams; a center of the cross-shaped transverse beam is provided with several force application holes used for applying forces and moments; four tail ends of the cross-shaped transverse beam are each connected to one of the rectangular transverse beams to form a clockwise or counterclockwise swastika-shaped structure; a top end of a vertical beam is connected to a tail end of a corresponding rectangular transverse beam, and bottom ends of the vertical beams are connected to the rectangular outer frame; and there are a plurality of strain gauges to form six groups of Wheatstone bridges that are respectively used for measuring an X-direction for
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Shuyan Yang, Baoguo Xu, Ming Wei, Chunhui Wang, Fan Li, Yuhua Yao, Yanjun Li, Suinan Zhang, Qiong Jin
  • Patent number: 11651766
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an ultra-low-power speech feature extraction circuit based on non-overlapping framing and serial fast Fourier transform (FFT), and belongs to the technical field of computation, calculation or counting. The circuit is oriented to the field of intelligence, and is integrally composed of a pre-process module, a windowing module, a Fourier transform module, a Mel filtering module, an adjacent frame merging module, a discrete cosine transform (DCT) module and other modules by optimizing the architecture of a Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) algorithm. Large-scale storage caused by framing is avoided in a non-overlapping framing mode, storage contained in the MFCC algorithm is further reduced, and the circuit area and the power consumption are greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Weiwei Shan, Lixuan Zhu, Jun Yang, Longxing Shi
  • Patent number: 11649141
    Abstract: The present invention provides a buffer stop used for an end of crane rails, including: a rail fastener fixedly connected to the crane rails, where a sliding rail is provided on each side of the rail fastener, a sliding shaft passes through the sliding rails and connecting brackets are mounted at two ends of the sliding shaft, an other end of the connecting bracket is connected to an arc-shaped plate above the rail fastener, each outer side of the connecting brackets is connected to a drive rod B by the sliding shaft, each drive rod B is connected to a drive rod A by a rotating shaft, an impact shaft is connected between top portions of two drive rods A, an impact rubber is mounted on one side of the impact shaft facing crane wheels, and each drive rod A is connected to the rail fastener by a pin shaft. The present invention is used for braking the crane at the end of the rails, to ensure safety of the crane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hui Jin, Haihan Jiao, Keqin Ding, Libin Wang
  • Publication number: 20230143359
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a gene interference vector- and iron nanoparticle-based composition for killing cancer cells, and the use thereof. The composition comprises a gene interference vector and iron nanoparticles, wherein the gene interference vector is a CRISPR/Cas13a expression vector or microRNA expression vector controlled by a cancer cell specific promoter DMP, with the Cas13a-gRNA or microRNA expressed by the vector being able to inhibit, in a targeted manner, intracellular iron metabolism and the expression of reactive oxygen related genes, and the iron nanoparticles can be degraded after entering cells to produce iron ions and to increase the reactive oxygen level. The composition comprising the gene interference vector and the iron nanoparticles of the present invention can be used for preparing a new reagent for treating cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinke WANG, Jinliang Gao, Tao Luo