Patents by Inventor Guichen Zhang

Guichen Zhang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260054819
    Abstract: A closed-loop automatic control system for ship speed and a method are provided, including the following steps: obtaining feedback information through a detection feedback module, and generating a final effective main engine speed order nE* through an outer-loop control module; through the middle-loop control module, the main engine speed order nE* is compared with the main engine speed n by the speed deviation ?n, which uses PID and other control algorithms, the final effective main engine fuel quantity order LS* is generated; through the inner-loop control module, generating the fuel quantity deviation ?L between the main engine fuel quantity order LS* and fuel quantity feedback signal L into an optimized fuel quantity value S; and completing the closed-loop adjustment of fuel injection quantity (FIQ).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Inventors: Chunchang ZHANG, Guichen ZHANG, Mengwei CHEN, Taishan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250319951
    Abstract: Disclosed is a total servo drive IRT pos-sync and load self-adaptive jack-up cooperative control system, belonging to the field of marine engineering equipment. The total servo drive IRT pos-sync and load self-adaptive jack-up cooperative control system includes a HMI, a main controller, a tilt angle sensor, a leg position calculator and a series of control modules of each leg; where the jack-up, the tilt angle sensor, the main controller and the leg position calculator are sequentially connected; the main controller is further connected to the HMI for data exchange; and each leg corresponds to a series of control module and is connected to the leg position calculator. According to the present disclosure, double layer virtual master axis IRT pos-sync with dynamic redundant load self-adaptive fault-tolerant strategy for single leg multi-motors cooperative control are implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Inventors: Hejun LIU, Guichen ZHANG, Qili WU
  • Patent number: 12403998
    Abstract: Provided is a method for adjusting lubrication optimization of a marine main engine cylinder based on computer vision, and belongs to the technical field of marine power systems. The method includes: establishing a marine main engine lubrication database for cylinder lubrication analysis and quality evaluation; collecting cylinder lubrication data of each current cylinder, and preprocessing cylinder lubrication image set data; performing image segmentation and cluster analysis on the preprocessed cylinder lubrication image set, and comparing the preprocessed cylinder lubrication image set with the marine main engine lubrication database to obtain feature recognition results of carbon deposition, dirts, scratches and a wear degree; and according to the feature recognition results, evaluating a cylinder lubrication quality to obtain evaluation grades, and adjusting cylinder lubrication optimization according to the evaluation grades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guichen Zhang, Yanji Liu, Qili Wu, Chunchang Zhang, Yifan Li
  • Publication number: 20240158065
    Abstract: Provided is a method for adjusting lubrication optimization of a marine main engine cylinder based on computer vision, and belongs to the technical field of marine power systems. The method includes: establishing a marine main engine lubrication database for cylinder lubrication analysis and quality evaluation; collecting cylinder lubrication data of each current cylinder, and preprocessing cylinder lubrication image set data; performing image segmentation and cluster analysis on the preprocessed cylinder lubrication image set, and comparing the preprocessed cylinder lubrication image set with the marine main engine lubrication database to obtain feature recognition results of carbon deposition, dirts, scratches and a wear degree; and according to the feature recognition results, evaluating a cylinder lubrication quality to obtain evaluation grades, and adjusting cylinder lubrication optimization according to the evaluation grades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Guichen ZHANG, Yanji LIU, Qili WU, Chunchang ZHANG, Yifan LI
  • Patent number: 11977383
    Abstract: An intelligent course planning method and controller for unmanned surface vehicle are provided, an overall optimization from starting point to end point of course deflection angle is achieved based on an optimization principle of approximate dynamic programming; an optimization of minimization of the course deflection angle and a control signal is achieved based on a quadratic form cost function and a performance index by designing a virtual radial basis function neural network and a least square method, a target course expression is obtained, and a stability and a degree of convergence are ensured through a positive-definite constraint of the Hessian matrix of the performance index. Compared with the related art, an overshoot of course deflection and the control signal is reduced, an optimization of flight and steering energy consumption is achieved, and completely data-driven for intelligent course planning for unmanned surface vehicle and a high-accuracy feedback adjustment are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Maritime University
    Inventors: Zhijian Huang, Lizhe Yang, Siyu Zhang, Guichen Zhang, Yanji Liu, Hongren Wang
  • Publication number: 20240118694
    Abstract: An intelligent course planning method and controller for unmanned surface vehicle are provided, an overall optimization from starting point to end point of course deflection angle is achieved based on an optimization principle of approximate dynamic programming; an optimization of minimization of the course deflection angle and a control signal is achieved based on a quadratic form cost function and a performance index by designing a virtual radial basis function neural network and a least square method, a target course expression is obtained, and a stability and a degree of convergence are ensured through a positive-definite constraint of the Hessian matrix of the performance index. Compared with the related art, an overshoot of course deflection and the control signal is reduced, an optimization of flight and steering energy consumption is achieved, and completely data-driven for intelligent course planning for unmanned surface vehicle and a high- accuracy feedback adjustment are achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zhijian Huang, Lizhe Yang, Siyu Zhang, Guichen Zhang, Yanji Liu, Hongren Wang