Patents by Inventor Shengjie Qin

Shengjie Qin 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).

  • Patent number: 11500384
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for path planning of a wave glider, comprising acquiring historical navigation data of the glider and an underwater vehicle via a shore-based monitoring center; fitting historical navigation data nonlinearly by a deep learning neural network to obtain a trained network; acquiring real-time navigation data of the glider at an off-line end, real-time navigation data and predetermined shipping track data of the vehicle; obtaining the set of off-line optimized path planning schemes of the glider by the above data and the trained network; and determining an optimal path planning scheme of the glider by the deep learning neural network according to real-time data and constraint data of the glider at the on-line end. The invention can reasonably plan the path of the glider and ensure continuous and reliable information interaction between the glider and the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL DEEP SEA CENTER, QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Lei Yan, Haibing Li, Xiujun Sun, Xianglin Xu, Jingxiao Liu, Lei Yang, Shengjie Qin
  • Patent number: 11486991
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for determining a horizontal distance between a transmitting point and a receiving point. The method obtains a depth value of the transmitting point and a depth value of the receiving point. An area of a sound velocity profile according to the depth value of the transmitting point and the depth value of the receiving point is then determined. A sound velocity gradient according to the area of the sound velocity profile is also determined. The horizontal distance between the transmitting point and the receiving point according to the sound velocity gradient is then determined by calculations. The present invention eliminates the need to calculate a grazing angle of an eigen sound ray(wave) connecting the transmitting point and the receiving point, by directly converting a propagation time into the horizontal distance, thereby quickly and efficiently calculating the horizontal distance between the transmitting point and the receiving point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL DEEP SEA CENTER
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Lei Yang, Shengjie Qin, Xiangxin Wang, Dequan Lu, Jichao Yang
  • Patent number: 11460588
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for real-time high-precision positioning in the deep sea. The present invention, based on a ray theory model, uses an azimuth angle, a transmission delay, a deep-sea vehicle depth and a depth of an acoustic transducer of a water surface monitoring platform as an eigenray emergence angle, an eigenray transmission time, eigenray emergence depth and an eigenray end point depth respectively, quickly calculates an eigenray that connects the water surface monitoring platform with the deep-sea vehicle, accurately calculates a position of the deep-sea vehicle relative to the water surface monitoring platform, and converts the position into absolute position information of the deep-sea vehicle through the latitude and longitude of the water surface monitoring platform, thereby achieving real-time high-precision positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: National Deep Sea Center
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Shengjie Qin, Xiangxin Wang, Jialing Tang, Dequan Lu, Zhengguang Li
  • Patent number: 11428569
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for determining an effective sound velocity in the deep sea. The method is applied to an apparatus for determining an effective sound velocity in the deep sea having a transmission point, a receiving point, and an underwater mobile carrier. The transmission point is installed on the sea surface such that the depth of the transmission point is unchanged. The receiving point is installed on the underwater mobile carrier such that the depth of the receiving point changes with movement of the underwater mobile carrier. The underwater mobile carrier can measure a sound velocity profile between the transmission point and the receiving point and a horizontal distance between the transmission point and the receiving point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL DEEP SEA CENTER
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Lei Yang, Shengjie Qin, Xiangxin Wang, Dequan Lu, Jichao Yang
  • Patent number: 11320839
    Abstract: An integrated method and system for communication, positioning, navigation, and timing of a deep-sea vehicle. The method implements integration and deep fusion of communication, positioning, navigation, and timing, and can achieve uniformity of space references and time references between sensors and systems, can reduce difficulty in information fusion, and can implement convenient underwater acoustic communication, real-time/high-update-rate/low-power-consumption/high-precision positioning, high-precision/fault-tolerant navigation, and precise timing. The present invention implements simultaneous operation of four working modes: communication, positioning, navigation, and timing, to fundamentally resolve problems such as insufficient practicability of underwater acoustic communication, low accuracy of navigation and positioning, and no timing function, so as to improve underwater operation efficiency of a deep-sea vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: National Deep Sea Center
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Shengjie Qin, Xiangxin Wang, Jialing Tang, Dequan Lu, Zhengguang Li
  • Publication number: 20210286361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for path planning of a wave glider, comprising acquiring historical navigation data of the glider and an underwater vehicle via a shore-based monitoring center; fitting historical navigation data nonlinearly by a deep learning neural network to obtain a trained network; acquiring real-time navigation data of the glider at an off-line end, real-time navigation data and predetermined shipping track data of the vehicle; obtaining the set of off-line optimized path planning schemes of the glider by the above data and the trained network; and determining an optimal path planning scheme of the glider by the deep learning neural network according to real-time data and constraint data of the glider at the on-line end. The invention can reasonably plan the path of the glider and ensure continuous and reliable information interaction between the glider and the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicants: NATIONAL DEEP SEA CENTER, QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Tongwei ZHANG, Lei YAN, Haibing LI, Xiujun SUN, Xianglin XU, Jingxiao LIU, Lei YANG, Shengjie QIN
  • Publication number: 20200209373
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for determining a horizontal distance between a transmitting point and a receiving point. The method obtains a depth value of the transmitting point and a depth value of the receiving point. An area of a sound velocity profile according to the depth value of the transmitting point and the depth value of the receiving point is then determined. A sound velocity gradient according to the area of the sound velocity profile is also determined. The horizontal distance between the transmitting point and the receiving point according to the sound velocity gradient is then determined by calculations. The present invention eliminates the need to calculate a grazing angle of an eigen sound ray(wave) connecting the transmitting point and the receiving point, by directly converting a propagation time into the horizontal distance, thereby quickly and efficiently calculating the horizontal distance between the transmitting point and the receiving point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tongwei ZHANG, Lei YANG, Shengjie QIN, Xiangxin WANG, Dequan LU, Jichao YANG
  • Publication number: 20200209054
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for determining an effective sound velocity in the deep sea. The method is applied to an apparatus for determining an effective sound velocity in the deep sea having a transmission point, a receiving point, and an underwater mobile carrier. The transmission point is installed on the sea surface such that the depth of the transmission point is unchanged. The receiving point is installed on the underwater mobile carrier such that the depth of the receiving point changes with movement of the underwater mobile carrier. The underwater mobile carrier can measure a sound velocity profile between the transmission point and the receiving point and a horizontal distance between the transmission point and the receiving point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tongwei ZHANG, Lei YANG, Shengjie QIN, Xiangxin WANG, Dequan LU, Jichao YANG
  • Publication number: 20200042020
    Abstract: An integrated method and system for communication, positioning, navigation, and timing of a deep-sea vehicle. The method implements integration and deep fusion of communication, positioning, navigation, and timing, and can achieve uniformity of space references and time references between sensors and systems, can reduce difficulty in information fusion, and can implement convenient underwater acoustic communication, real-time/high-update-rate/low-power-consumption/high-precision positioning, high-precision/fault-tolerant navigation, and precise timing. The present invention implements simultaneous operation of four working modes: communication, positioning, navigation, and timing, to fundamentally resolve problems such as insufficient practicability of underwater acoustic communication, low accuracy of navigation and positioning, and no timing function, so as to improve underwater operation efficiency of a deep-sea vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Shengjie Qin, Xiangxin Wang, Jialing Tang, Dequan Lu, Zhengguang Li
  • Publication number: 20200041659
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for real-time high-precision positioning in the deep sea. The present invention, based on a ray theory model, uses an azimuth angle, a transmission delay, a deep-sea vehicle depth and a depth of an acoustic transducer of a water surface monitoring platform as an eigenray emergence angle, an eigenray transmission time, eigenray emergence depth and an eigenray end point depth respectively, quickly calculates an eigenray that connects the water surface monitoring platform with the deep-sea vehicle, accurately calculates a position of the deep-sea vehicle relative to the water surface monitoring platform, and converts the position into absolute position information of the deep-sea vehicle through the latitude and longitude of the water surface monitoring platform, thereby achieving real-time high-precision positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Tongwei Zhang, Shengjie Qin, Xiangxin Wang, Jialing Tang, Dequan Lu, Zhengguang Li