Patents by Inventor Qiang Meng
Qiang Meng 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).
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Patent number: 12240522Abstract: The present invention provides a real-time path planning method taking into account dynamic properties of vehicles; the method includes a calculation without connecting to internet of a reachable set and an online path planning; in the calculation without connecting to internet of the reachable set, all vehicle safety states are traversed by means of the vehicle model and the wheel model, thereby predicting the position set capable of being reached by the vehicle at a next moment; in the online path planning, by means of calculating the position set capable of being reached by the vehicle at the next moment with connecting to internet, non-linear dynamic constraints are provided for the exploration of the artificial potential field method, achieving the purpose of real-time planning while taking into account dynamic properties of the vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Tongji UniversityInventors: Hong Chen, Lin Zhang, Rongjie Yu, Qiang Meng, Jinlong Hong
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Patent number: 12116016Abstract: Disclosed is a decision-making and planning integrated method for a nonconservative intelligent vehicle in a complex heterogeneous environment, including the following steps: offline establishing and training a social interaction knowledge learning model; obtaining state data of the traffic participants and state data of an intelligent vehicle online in real time, and splicing the state data to obtain an environmental state; using the environmental state as an input to the trained social interaction knowledge learning model to obtain predicted trajectories of all traffic participants including the nonconservative intelligent vehicle; updating the environmental state based on the predicted trajectories; and inputting the updated environmental state to the social interaction knowledge learning model to complete trajectory decision-making and planning for the nonconservative intelligent vehicle by iteration, where a planned trajectory of the nonconservative intelligent vehicle is a splicing result of a first poiType: GrantFiled: December 13, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Lin Zhang, Rongjie Yu, Qiang Meng, Jinlong Hong
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Publication number: 20240336286Abstract: Disclosed is a decision-making and planning integrated method for a nonconservative intelligent vehicle in a complex heterogeneous environment, including the following steps: offline establishing and training a social interaction knowledge learning model; obtaining state data of the traffic participants and state data of an intelligent vehicle online in real time, and splicing the state data to obtain an environmental state; using the environmental state as an input to the trained social interaction knowledge learning model to obtain predicted trajectories of all traffic participants including the nonconservative intelligent vehicle; updating the environmental state based on the predicted trajectories; and inputting the updated environmental state to the social interaction knowledge learning model to complete trajectory decision-making and planning for the nonconservative intelligent vehicle by iteration, where a planned trajectory of the nonconservative intelligent vehicle is a splicing result of a first poiType: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong CHEN, Lin ZHANG, Rongjie YU, Qiang MENG, Jinlong HONG
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Publication number: 20240339029Abstract: Disclosed is a method for predicting a trajectory of a traffic participant in a complex heterogeneous environment, including the following steps: obtaining traffic participant information in a complex heterogeneous environment; arranging and numbering traffic participant classes based on the class information, to obtain serial numbers of the traffic participant classes; establishing a position graph, a velocity graph, an acceleration graph, and a class graph, into each of which expert experience is introduced; and capturing topological structure relationships and time dependence relationships to obtain a position hidden state, a velocity hidden state, an acceleration hidden state, and a class hidden state; classifying the position hidden state, the velocity hidden state, the acceleration hidden state, and the class hidden state to obtain a hidden state set of traffic participants; and decoding hidden states of the traffic participants separately using a corresponding decoder to obtain future trajectory predicType: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Lin ZHANG, Hong CHEN, Rongjie YU, Qiang MENG, Jinlong HONG
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Publication number: 20240336302Abstract: The present invention provides a real-time path planning method taking into account dynamic properties of vehicles; the method includes calculation without connecting to internet of a reachable set and an online path planning; in the calculation without connecting to internet of the reachable set, all vehicle safety states are traversed by means of the vehicle model and the wheel model, thereby predicting the position set capable of being reached by the vehicle at a next moment; in the online path planning, by means of calculating the position set capable of being reached by the vehicle at the next moment with connecting to internet, non-linear dynamic constraints are provided for the exploration of the artificial potential field method, achieving the purpose of real-time planning while taking into account dynamic properties of the vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: Hong CHEN, Lin ZHANG, Rongjie YU, Qiang MENG, Jinlong HONG
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Patent number: 12112623Abstract: Disclosed is a method for predicting a trajectory of a traffic participant in a complex heterogeneous environment, including the following steps: obtaining traffic participant information in a complex heterogeneous environment; arranging and numbering traffic participant classes based on the class information, to obtain serial numbers of the traffic participant classes; establishing a position graph, a velocity graph, an acceleration graph, and a class graph, into each of which expert experience is introduced; and capturing topological structure relationships and time dependence relationships to obtain a position hidden state, a velocity hidden state, an acceleration hidden state, and a class hidden state; classifying the position hidden state, the velocity hidden state, the acceleration hidden state, and the class hidden state to obtain a hidden state set of traffic participants; and decoding hidden states of the traffic participants separately using a corresponding decoder to obtain future trajectory predicType: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Lin Zhang, Hong Chen, Rongjie Yu, Qiang Meng, Jinlong Hong
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Publication number: 20240307862Abstract: A preparation method for a titanium-based lithium ion exchanger includes the following steps: step 1, preparation of lithium metatitanate precursor, namely, uniformly mixing titanium source, lithium source and water in proportion by ball milling, adding an adjuvant, and allowing reaction by ultrasonic heating and stirring, so as to obtain the lithium metatitanate precursor powder; step 2, preparation of lithium metatitanate powder, including spray drying and microwave calcination with the lithium metatitanate precursor to obtain the lithium metatitanate powder; and step 3, elution and replacement, namely, leaching out Li with an eluent to obtain lithium ion exchanger. The preparation method is a solid-liquid phase contact reaction so that the ratio of raw materials can be accurately controlled. The synthesis reaction is strengthened by ultrasound. Titanium is controlled at a relatively excessive proportion to prepare the lithium metatitanate powder with high porosity and good filterability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Qiang MENG, Yihua DAI, Lei ZHANG, Jinfeng YANG, Wenjun BAN, Rongfu CAI
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Patent number: 12071186Abstract: Disclosed is a steering wheel torque feedback optimization control method for a differential braking system, including: estimating a tire lateral force of a vehicle; predicting a state of the vehicle at a next moment under a non-differential torque condition; predicting a state of the vehicle at the next moment under a differential torque condition with an additional yaw moment; calculating tire lateral forces at the next moment under the differential torque condition and the non-differential torque condition separately based on the predicted states of the vehicle at the next moment under the differential torque condition and the non-differential torque condition, and obtaining a predicted one-step change value of a front tire lateral force by performing subtraction; performing integral calculation based on time, and obtaining a continuous change amount of the tire lateral force; and correcting a desired moment of a steering power motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Lin Zhang, Rongjie Yu, Qiang Meng, Jinlong Hong
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Patent number: 12013671Abstract: Disclosed is an intelligent driving test method with corner cases dynamically completed based on human feedback, including the following steps: obtaining an initial state of a real environment; building an original scene driver based on reinforcement learning, and correcting behavior selection to obtain an exploratory behavior; testing in a testing environment, performing expert evaluation, and building a dynamic corner case completion library based on the human feedback; building an imitation learning driver based on the human feedback, updating a policy based on test data in the dynamic corner case completion library, training the imitation learning driver, and outputting a corner case reproduction behavior; obtaining the initial state of the real environment and an initial environmental state of the dynamic corner case completion library, and selecting a scene driver; and outputting a corresponding behavior, and testing in the testing environment based on the corresponding behavior to obtain a test result.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Lin Zhang, Qiang Meng
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Publication number: 20240174211Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a self-adaptive guided advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) considering a driving skill difference between drivers, including a driving skill classification module, configured to calculate a vehicle stability margin based on a vehicle state, and obtain a corresponding driving skill classification result with the vehicle stability margin and a driver state as inputs of a driving skill classification model; a skill learning range classification module, configured to obtain the vehicle stability margin and a distance between a vehicle and a lane line boundary, and use a skill learning range classification model to obtain a skill learning range classification result; and a self-adaptive guided driving right allocation module, configured to realize driving right allocation control based on the driving skill classification result and the skill learning range classification result, and generate an assisted steering torque acting on a vehicle steering system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong CHEN, Lin ZHANG, Qiang MENG
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Patent number: 11975705Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a self-adaptive guided advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) considering a driving skill difference between drivers, including a driving skill classification module, configured to calculate a vehicle stability margin based on a vehicle state, and obtain a corresponding driving skill classification result with the vehicle stability margin and a driver state as inputs of a driving skill classification model; a skill learning range classification module, configured to obtain the vehicle stability margin and a distance between a vehicle and a lane line boundary, and use a skill learning range classification model to obtain a skill learning range classification result; and a self-adaptive guided driving right allocation module, configured to realize driving right allocation control based on the driving skill classification result and the skill learning range classification result, and generate an assisted steering torque acting on a vehicle steering system.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Lin Zhang, Qiang Meng
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Patent number: 11964624Abstract: An automotive front seat overhead airbag includes a supporting air chamber and a protective air chamber mounted on a roof. The supporting air chamber is inflated from the roof towards a dashboard upon inflation. The protective air chamber is in communication with the supporting air chamber. After the supporting air chamber is inflated, the protective air chamber is inflated from the supporting air chamber towards the human body. A first protective space is reserved between the supporting air chamber and the protective air chamber on a side facing the human body. The first protective space corresponds to the head of the human body for protecting the head and neck of the human body. An automobile includes a roof and a dashboard, and further includes the automotive front seat overhead airbag described above. An upper end of the supporting air chamber is connected to a gas generator.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Qiang Meng, Jianfei Ma, Ting Wang
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Patent number: 11851017Abstract: A safety airbag having an air bag, the air bag configured with an inflated state and a stowed state, and including a main body portion and a first side flap and a second side flap connected to two sides of the main body portion. The first side flap and the second side flap extend from the main body portion towards an occupant when the air bag is in the inflated state such that the head of the occupant is accommodated in a recessed portion between the first side flap and the second side flap. The first side flap includes a first inner side surface and a first outer side surface. The second side flap includes a second inner side surface and a second outer side surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Qiang Meng, Ting Wang
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Patent number: 11763166Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Qiang Meng, Lin Zhang, Haoqi Hu, Bin Li
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Patent number: 11760349Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Bin Li, Qiang Meng, Lin Zhang, Yanjun Huang
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Patent number: 11572314Abstract: A preparation method for an yttrium aluminum garnet continuous fiber. The method prepares a spinnable precursor sol by utilizing an Al13 colloidal particles contained alumina sol, ?-AlOOH nano-dispersion, yttria sol, glacial acetic acid and polyvinylpyrrolidone, then prepares a gel continuous fiber by adopting a dry spinning technique, and carries out a heat treatment to obtain the yttrium aluminum garnet continuous fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITYInventors: Dairong Chen, Qiang Meng, Yuna Jia, Xiuling Jiao, Chao Zhu, Luning Chai
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Publication number: 20230015426Abstract: An automotive front seat overhead airbag includes a supporting air chamber and a protective air chamber mounted on a roof. The supporting air chamber is inflated from the roof towards a dashboard upon inflation. The protective air chamber is in communication with the supporting air chamber. After the supporting air chamber is inflated, the protective air chamber is inflated from the supporting air chamber towards the human body. A first protective space is reserved between the supporting air chamber and the protective air chamber on a side facing the human body. The first protective space corresponds to the head of the human body for protecting the head and neck of the human body. An automobile includes a roof and a dashboard, and further includes the automotive front seat overhead airbag described above. An upper end of the supporting air chamber is connected to a gas generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Qiang MENG, Jianfei MA, Ting WANG
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Publication number: 20220388467Abstract: A safety airbag having an air bag, the air bag configured with an inflated state and a stowed state, and including a main body portion and a first side flap and a second side flap connected to two sides of the main body portion. The first side flap and the second side flap extend from the main body portion towards an occupant when the air bag is in the inflated state such that the head of the occupant is accommodated in a recessed portion between the first side flap and the second side flap. The first side flap includes a first inner side surface and a first outer side surface. The second side flap includes a second inner side surface and a second outer side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Qiang MENG, Ting WANG
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Publication number: 20220327388Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Qiang Meng, Lin Zhang, Haoqi Hu, Bin Li
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Publication number: 20220324443Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong Chen, Bin Li, Qiang Meng, Lin Zhang, Yanjun Huang