Patents Assigned to University of Technology
  • Patent number: 11911902
    Abstract: A method for obstacle avoidance in degraded environments of robots based on intrinsic plasticity of an SNN is disclosed. A decision network in a synaptic autonomous learning module takes lidar data, distance from a target point and velocity at a previous moment as state input, and outputs the velocity of left and right wheels of the robot through the autonomous adjustment of the dynamic energy-time threshold, so as to carry out autonomous perception and decision making. The method solves the difficulty of the lack of intrinsic plasticity in the SNN, which leads to the difficulty of adapting to degraded environments due to the homeostasis imbalance of the model, is successfully deployed in mobile robots to maintain a stable trigger rate for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in degraded, disturbed and noisy environments, and has validity and applicability on different degraded scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xin Yang, Jianchuan Ding, Bo Dong, Felix Heide, Baocai Yin
  • Patent number: 11912933
    Abstract: The invention provides a suspension modifier directly added into fracturing fluid for real-time proppant modification during fracturing and the application thereof, relating to the field of oil and gas production technologies. The suspension modifier is a controlled release nanoemulsion and comprises surface hydrophobic modifier, surfactant, cosurfactant and water. The suspension modifier is directly added into clear-water or active-water fracturing fluid while the proppant is added into water. After stirring, the suspension modifier is capable of self-assembling and being adsorbed on the proppant surface, so that the proppant surface becomes hydrophobic and aerophilic. The invention no longer requires the proppant to be pretreated, and the bubble-suspended proppant can be obtained directly by adding the suspension modifier to the clear-water or active-water fracturing fluid, and meanwhile adding the proppant to the fracturing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Chengdu University of Technology
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Yu Liu, Hao Zhang, Di Yang, Min Ren, Yang Yang, Ying Zhong, Bin Yang, Jiping She
  • Patent number: 11915386
    Abstract: A high-throughput microstructure characterization and reconstruction method of heterogeneous materials is provided. By extracting the features such as content, size and morphology of each constituent phase in the microscopic image of heterogeneous materials, and combining the principles of physical descriptor and texture synthesis method, the constituent phase with 10 microns scale, regular geometrical morphology and low content is characterized and reconstructed based on the physical descriptor, and the constituent phase with 100 microns scale, complex geometrical morphology and high content is characterized and reconstructed based on texture synthesis, and then the composition is adjusted to compensate for the overlapping pixels of each constituent phase to obtain batch reconstructed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Li Lin, Zhiyuan Ma, Yijia Chen, Luoming Sun, Xiyu Xie
  • Patent number: 11913913
    Abstract: A structure multi-dimensional loading test system considering real complex boundary conditions considering real complex boundary conditions comprises a main part of machine, a base part, a hydraulic power supply and a control system. The system can simulate the load borne by a structure in a real working environment better and more accurately, realize multi-dimensional loading of the structure with six degrees of freedom in space and provide more real and valuable experimental data for the research on damage of reinforced concrete materials, components and structures under the action of an earthquake, and the research results will help researchers further reveal the damage mechanism of reinforced concrete structures, put forward the corresponding damage criteria and develop the corresponding seismic design methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hongnan Li, Linsheng Huo, Gang Li, Jing Zhou, Zhuodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11912595
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a groundwater circulation well system with pressure-adjustable hydrodynamic cavitation, including a circulation well body, a sucked and injected water circulation assembly and a hydrodynamic cavitator. The sucked and injected water circulation assembly is based on a water suction and injection pump. The hydrodynamic cavitator is provided, inside a vortex chamber, with a vortex water inlet column capable of changing a water passing aperture. The hydrodynamic cavitator is capable of changing a bubbling pressure and a breaking pressure of hydrodynamic cavitation bubbles in the vortex water inlet column. The hydrodynamic cavitator generates vortices in the circulation well body to accelerate uniform mixing of a remediation agent and the groundwater. Energy from collapsing and bursting of the hydrodynamic cavitation bubbles activates the remediation agent such that contaminants in the groundwater are efficiently degraded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shengyan Pu, Hui Ma, Yuming He, Xiaoguang Wang, Guangyong Zeng, Yi Chen, Dong Yu, Wenwen Ji
  • Patent number: 11911840
    Abstract: Disclosed are a continuous rolling device and method with interfacial temperature-force controllability for a seamless metal cladding pipe. The device comprises a multi-roller skew rolling mill set, an interfacial temperature-force controlled rolling mill set and a sizing and finishing mill set sequentially distributed along a rolling axis; and the interfacial temperature-force controlled rolling mill set comprises an interface temperature control module and an interface pressure control module sequentially distributed along the rolling axis, the interface pressure control module comprises two racks and a plurality of controlled rolling rollers circumferentially and evenly distributed along the rolling axis, two ends of the controlled rolling roller are respectively mounted on the two racks through corresponding screwdown apparatuses, and the interface pressure control module realizes passive driving through a spiral pushing force or a traction force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Ce Ji, Xingcheng Wang, Wenbin Feng, Hui Niu, Zhongkai Ren, Wenwen Liu, Qingxue Huang
  • Patent number: 11912630
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing a recycled cementitious material by a phosphogypsum-assisted carbon sequestration pretreatment process. The method includes: (1) placing 100 mass parts of phosphogypsum, 1 to 2 mass parts of grinding aid, 10 to 20 mass parts of sodium-containing alkali component, 150 to 300 mass parts of zirconia balls, and 150 to 300 mass parts of water into a wet grinding tank for wet grinding. After 10 min to 30 min of wet grinding, introducing CO2 at a flow rate of 1.5 to 2.2 mass parts/min to keep a temperature of a wet grinding slurry below 40° C. When the wet grinding slurry reaches pH=10, ending the wet grinding and sieving out a wet grinding slurry; (2) mixing the wet grinding slurry with 700 to 1000 mass parts of slag and 100 to 350 mass parts of water to obtain a recycled cementitious material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hubei University Of Technology
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Xiaolei Yu, Xingyang He, Ying Su, Mingchao Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Zhengqi Zheng, Hongbo Tan
  • Patent number: 11914376
    Abstract: The invention discloses an unmanned surface vessel (USV) formation path-following method based on deep reinforcement learning, which includes USV navigation environment exploration, reward function design, formation pattern keeping, a random braking mechanism and path following, wherein the USV navigation environment exploration is realized adopting simultaneous exploration by multiple underactuated USVs to extract environmental information, the reward function design includes the design of a formation pattern composition and a path following error, the path following controls USVs to move along a preset path by a leader-follower formation control strategy, and path following of all USVs in a formation is realized by constantly updating positions of the USVs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yong Ma, Yujiao Zhao, Hao Li
  • Patent number: 11911786
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material and a preparation method therefor. The material includes a refrigerant hydrate and a cross-linked polymer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: first, preparing a refrigerant hydrate by using a high-pressure reactor, and conducting grinding, crushing and sieving to obtain hydrate particles; then, uniformly spraying polytetrafluoroethylene suspended ultrafine powder onto the surface of the hydrate particles by using an electrostatic spraying device, and putting the hydrate particles into a plasma instrument to modify polytetrafluoroethylene so as to allow free radicals to be formed on the polytetrafluoroethylene powder surface; finally, subjecting monomers to graft polymerization with the free radicals on the polytetrafluoroethylene surface under the irradiation of a high-pressure mercury lamp of UV lighting system to stabilize the structure of the material, preparing a final product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiafei Zhao, Yongchen Song, Mingzhao Yang, Hongsheng Dong, Lunxiang Zhang, Quan Shi, Lei Yang, Zheng Ling, Xiang Sun, Yanghui Li, Weiguo Liu
  • Patent number: 11914068
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radar ranging system based on a true random generator and a ranging method thereof The present disclosure adopts the following technical scheme: the system comprises a radar signal modulation and transmission unit and a radar signal receiving and processing unit, wherein the radar signal modulation and transmission unit inputs and stores a true random binary sequence generated by the true random generator in a memory, and cyclically outputs the true random binary sequence to a BPSK modulator for phase modulation. The receiving and amplifying unit receives the reflected radar signal. The down-sampling unit down samples the intermediate frequency signal generated by the mixers. The data processing unit converts the sampled analog signal into a digital signal and cross-correlates the signal with the true random binary sequence in the memory, so as to obtain the distance to the object side to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Taiyuan University of Technology
    Inventors: Jianguo Zhang, Rui Hou, Hang Xu, Li Liu, Zhiwei Jia, Yuncai Wang
  • Patent number: 11913104
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a short-process high-performance forming method of a high-strength aluminum alloy, and use thereof. In the present disclosure, pre-hardening treatment is conducted on an obtained W-temper aluminum alloy sheet blank after a solution treatment and quenching, to obtain a pre-hardened aluminum alloy sheet blank for batch supply. The pre-hardened aluminum alloy sheet blank is subjected to plastic forming, to obtain a component with satisfactory performances. After the pre-hardening treatment, a high-strength aluminum alloy sheet blank forms a GPII zone that is completely coherent with a matrix, and has a room-temperature formability exceeding that off traditional soft sheet blank. Moreover, the GPII zones interact with dislocations during the forming, resulting in planar slips. In this way, large-scale dynamic recovery is more effectively suppressed, thus enhancing a work hardening ability of a formed component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhili Hu, Pengfei Wei, Lin Hua
  • Patent number: 11910813
    Abstract: This invention provides for a nanocomposite comprising a Vigna subterranea starch component and a Vigna subterranea soluble dietary fibre (SDF) component. Vigna subterranea is otherwise none as Bambara groundnut (BGN). In particular, this invention relates to a graft copolymer nanocomposite comprising starch derived from BGN and soluble dietary fibre derived from BGN. The nanocomposite of the invention is useful in several food applications, including as a replacement of other starches and the stabilisation of emulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
    Inventors: Victoria Adaora Ebele Jideani, Yvonne Maphosa, Nontobeko Benhilda Gulu, Daniel Imwansi Ogiemwanva Ikhu-Omoregbe
  • Publication number: 20240059613
    Abstract: A curing agent for disposal of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash and a preparation method and use method thereof are provided. In the present disclosure, a loofah nanofiber crystal, a rice husk ash (RHA), sodium hydroxide, and water are adopted as raw materials to prepare the curing agent, and the curing agent can effectively realize the safe disposal and curing of heavy metals in an MSWI fly ash. The highest curing rates of the curing agent for heavy metals Pb2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, Cr3+, and Cu2+ can reach 99.7%, 99.4%, 99.5%, 98.7%, and 99.5%, respectively. The special three-dimensional (3D) cross-linked network structure of the loofah nanofiber crystal and the excellent physical and chemical adsorption properties and ion exchange capacity of the RHA are fully used in the curing agent of the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Baomin WANG, Chengcheng FAN, Xiao HAN, Tianru LI, Yunqing XING, Xiong ZHANG, Sai AN, Ze YU, Wanli WANG
  • Publication number: 20240059044
    Abstract: A honeycomb core with S-shaped reinforced structures includes multiple cylindrical unit cells arranged in a honeycomb shape and with a polygonal cross section, the cylindrical unit cells are divided into plain unit cells and S-shaped reinforced unit cells, an inner cavity of the plain unit cell is hollow, and the inner cavity of the S-shaped reinforced unit cell is equipped with an S-shaped reinforced structure, a cross section of the S-shaped reinforced structure is S-shaped and the inner cavity of the S-shaped reinforced unit cell is divided into two halves on average. This structure guides the load-transfer path effectively by controlling the rotation of S-shaped reinforced cells, it changes the position of plastic collapse in the structure, and finally changes the peak load of the core. Under different working conditions, the design of the arrangement of S-shaped reinforced structures can make the core produce different peak loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicants: Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian University of Technology
    Inventors: Shanshan SHI, Zhi SUN, Xin ZHOU, Bingzhi CHEN, Yonghua LI, Yuedong WANG
  • Publication number: 20240060938
    Abstract: An ultrasonic inspection device includes: a longitudinal ultrasonic sensor configured to emit and receive a longitudinal ultrasonic wave; and an ultrasonic transducer unit made of metal and having the shape of a polyhedron. The ultrasonic transducer unit includes: an output surface configured to be disposed facing an object to be inspected; an input surface on which the longitudinal ultrasonic sensor is disposed; and a conversion surface configured to, when the longitudinal ultrasonic wave input through the input surface is reflected by the conversion surface, convert the longitudinal ultrasonic wave into a transverse ultrasonic wave such that the transverse ultrasonic wave propagates toward the output surface, the conversion surface being tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to an in-plane direction of the output surface. Thermal conductivity of the ultrasonic transducer unit is lower than thermal conductivity of the object to be inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tomohiro KOYAMA, Ikuo IHARA, Shinji WADA
  • Publication number: 20240057932
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for extracting a neuroimaging biomarker based on an interpretable ensemble three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3DCNN) to address limitations in the prior art. The present invention derives a novel neuroimaging biomarker P-score from prediction results obtained by an ensemble three-dimensional convolutional neural network model. The solution can help researchers to conduct studies on longitudinal trajectory changes of structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) during the progression of Alzheimer's disease, and analyze an association of the longitudinal trajectory changes with neurodegenerative changes of Alzheimer's disease subjects. The extracted neuroimaging biomarker can provide a basis for predicting a sequence of intervention of brain regions in the neurodegenerative changes of Alzheimer's disease patients and upcoming clinical symptoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dan PAN, An ZENG, Baoyao YANG
  • Publication number: 20240062649
    Abstract: A traffic information quantization method in an intelligent network environment includes: step S1: extracting traffic information sources according to collected videos and classifying the traffic information sources; step S2: obtaining a state set and a probability distribution of each traffic information source through actual observation and calculation; step S3: using information theory to quantify the traffic information sources. Further, a traffic information quantization system in the intelligent network environment is provided, and the traffic information quantization method in the intelligent network environment and its system are adopted to quantify the driving information of the driving process and calculate the amount of information. The method and system can transform uncertain information into certain information, improve driving efficiency, help drivers optimize the driving process, and ensure driving safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicants: Hefei University of Technology, Hefei Urban Planning and Design Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of HFUT
    Inventors: Zhongxiang FENG, Li DAI, Yubing ZHENG, Congjun HUANG, Shisheng FANG, Xu JIANG, Zongzu LIU, Yinbin SHEN, Weihua ZHANG, Jingyu LI, Dianchen ZHU
  • Publication number: 20240058775
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a rotary filtering type two-in-one stirring kettle. The stirring kettle includes a kettle body, where an upper sealing head and a lower sealing head are arranged at a top and a bottom of the kettle body respectively, a stirrer is arranged in the kettle body, and a rotary filtering mechanism is arranged between the kettle body and the lower sealing head. A back-flushing cleaning mechanism for dredging the rotary filtering mechanism is arranged at a bottom of the lower sealing head, and the rotary filtering mechanism is fixedly connected to the kettle body and the lower sealing head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: INNOVATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SHENGZHOU
    Inventors: Shuiqing ZHOU, Ding Xia, Zengliang Gao, Qizhi Yang, Mingjue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240059619
    Abstract: A method for preparing an ecological foamed ceramic from lepidolite filter mud whole waste belongs to the field of environmental protection and resource reuse. The ecological foamed ceramic with excellent properties can be prepared by using lepidolite filter mud as the main raw materials, including ball milling, homogenization, drying, material distribution, and heat treatment. The amount of lepidolite filter mud in the present invention accounts for more than 90%, which is a whole waste utilization and can achieve high-value utilization of bulk lepidolite filter mud. The present invention uses a composite foaming agent combined with a foaming technology and has the advantages of rapid foaming and controllable pore size compared with a single foaming agent. The ecological foamed ceramic prepared by the present invention meets the industrial standard of CJ/T 299-2008 “Artificial ceramic filter material for water treatment” and has potential application value in domestic sewage treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dean PAN, Xiaoguang ZHANG, Ruhao KONG, Qijun ZHANG, Zhe TAN, Wei WANG
  • Patent number: 11908152
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of image processing and computer vision, and discloses an acceleration method of depth estimation for multiband stereo cameras. In the process of depth estimation, during binocular stereo matching in each band, through compression of matched images, on one hand, disparity equipotential errors caused by binocular image correction can be offset to make the matching more accurate, and on the other hand, calculation overhead is reduced. In addition, before cost aggregation, cost diagrams are transversely compressed and sparsely matched, thereby reducing the calculation overhead again. Disparity diagrams obtained under different modes are fused to obtain all-weather, more complete and more accurate depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, PENG CHENG LABORATORY
    Inventors: Wei Zhong, Hong Zhang, Haojie Li, Zhihui Wang, Risheng Liu, Xin Fan, Zhongxuan Luo, Shengquan Li