Patents by Inventor Yanhua Ma

Yanhua Ma 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: 20230392556
    Abstract: An aero-engine surge active control system based on fuzzy controller switching is provided. The present invention selects a basic controller with the most appropriate current state for switching control according to the operating state of a compressor based on the principle of fuzzy switching, and can realize large-range, adaptive and performance-optimized surge active control. Controllers designed by the present invention realize large-range surge active control through fuzzy switching, so that the effective operating ranges of the controllers are expanded and the reliability of the controllers is improved. The designed controllers can be applied to the active control of surge caused by various causes, so that the adaptability of the controllers is improved and is closer to the actual operating condition of the engine. Some optimization indexes are added in the design process of the controllers, which can realize optimal control under corresponding optimization objectives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ximing SUN, Fuxiang QUAN, Chongyi SUN, Yanhua MA
  • Patent number: 11823057
    Abstract: An intelligent control method for a dynamic neural network-based variable cycle engine is provided. By adding a grey relation analysis method-based structure adjustment algorithm to the neural network training algorithm, the neural network structure is adjusted, a dynamic neural network controller is constructed, and thus the intelligent control of the variable cycle engine is realized. A dynamic neural network is trained through the grey relation analysis method-based network structure adjustment algorithm designed by the present invention, and an intelligent controller of the dynamic neural network-based variable cycle engine is constructed. Thus, the problem of coupling between nonlinear multiple variables caused by the increase of control variables of the variable cycle engine and the problem that the traditional control method relies too much on model accuracy are effectively solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanhua Ma, Xian Du, Ximing Sun, Weiguo Xia
  • Patent number: 11788473
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of control of aero-engines, and proposes an adaptive boosting algorithm-based turbofan engine direct data-driven control method. First, a turbofan engine controller is designed based on the Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) algorithm, and further, the weight of a training sample is changed by an adaptive boosting algorithm so as to construct a turbofan engine direct data-driven controller combining a plurality of basic learners into strong learners. Compared with the previous solution only adopting LS SVM, the present invention enhances the control precision, improves the generalization ability of the algorithm, and effectively solves the problem of sparsity of samples by the adaptive boosting method. By the adaptive boosting algorithm-based turbofan engine direct data-driven control method designed by the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanhua Ma, Nan Ding, Ximing Sun, Xudong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11635734
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interval error observer-based aircraft engine active fault tolerant control method, and belongs to the technical field of aircraft control. The method comprises: tracking the state and the output of a reference model of an aircraft engine through an error feedback controller; compensating a control system of the aircraft engine having a disturbance signal and actuator and sensor faults through a virtual sensor and a virtual actuator; observing an error between a system with fault of the aircraft engine and the reference model through an interval error observer, and feeding back the error to the error feedback controller; and finally, using a difference between the output of the reference model of the system with fault and the output of the virtual actuator as a control signal to realize active fault tolerant control of the aircraft engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanhua Ma, Xian Du, Ye Wang, Rui Wang, Ximing Sun
  • Publication number: 20220404777
    Abstract: A design method for undisturbed switching of linear controllers is provided for solving the problem of sudden system response change or an unstable control circuit caused by switching of multiple linear controllers, in which the linear controllers include proportional-integral-derivative (PID), linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG), linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC), H?, model reference adaptive control (MRAC), and open-loop controllers. Firstly, differentials tbr outputs of the controllers are found, then through controller decision, a controller is selected to be connected to a closed-loop control circuit, and a differential term of the controller connected to the closed-loop control circuit is integrated through a common integrator, thereby ensuring smooth controller switching. The design method has a simple structure and good versatility, is operable, and can be easily applied to various actual control systems without requiring parameter adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: DUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE, DALIAN, DALIAN AEROSPACE POWER CONTROL SYSTEM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sixin WEN, Ximing SUN, Yanhua MA, Xian DU, Jingwen DU, Zhuorui PAN, Guangchao HAO, Yuwen HAO
  • Patent number: 11492980
    Abstract: A bumpless transfer fault tolerant control method for aero-engine under actuator fault is disclosed. For an aero-engine actuator fault, by adopting an undesired oscillation problem produced by an active fault tolerant control method based on a virtual actuator, in order to solve the shortage of the existing control method, a bumpless transfer active fault tolerant control design method for the aero-engine actuator fault is provided, which can guarantee that a control system of the reconfigured aero-engine not only has the same state and output as an original fault-free system without changing the structure and parameters of a controller, to achieve a desired control objective, and that a reconfigured system has a smooth transient state, that is, output parameters such as rotational speed, temperature and pressure do not produce the undesired transient characteristics such as overshoot or oscillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanhua Ma, Xian Du, Rui Wang, Tongjian Liu
  • Patent number: 11454177
    Abstract: A design method of aero-engine on-line optimization and multivariable control based on model prediction control realizes aero-engine multivariable control and on-line optimization according to thrust, rotational speed and other needs under the condition of meeting constraints. The first part is a prediction model acquisition layer that continuously establishes a small deviation linear model of an aero-engine near different steady state points based on the actual operating state of the aero-engine in each control cycle and external environment parameters and that supplies model parameters to a controller; and the second part is a control law decision-making layer which is a closed loop structure that consists of a model prediction controller and an external output feedback. The model prediction controller determines the output of the controller at next moment by solving a linear optimization problem according to an engine model in the current state, a control instruction and relevant constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xian Du, Yanhua Ma, Ximing Sun, Zhimin Wang
  • Publication number: 20220276620
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved model-free adaptive control method, in particular to an improved method for a compact dynamic linearization model-free adaptive control based on MIMO systems, and belongs to the field of control algorithm design. Firstly, proportional control is added in CFDL-MFAC to improve the problems of low response speed and large overshoot in the original control system. Secondly, an anti-windup control algorithm of an actuator is added in the above control structure so that the actuator does not conduct transfinite operation when reaching the upper or lower saturation limit and the actuator can quickly make a control response when a control instruction enters an unsaturated region again to improve the control accuracy of the system. Then, it is proved through strict analysis that the improved control algorithm can ensure tracking error and BIBO stability under certain conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Ximing SUN, Sixin WEN, Xian DU, Yanhua MA, Xiaoyu LIU, Yuwen HAO
  • Publication number: 20220227302
    Abstract: A component for a vehicle interior configured to be operated by an operator control is disclosed. The component may comprise a cover movable relative to a base between a closed position and an open position, a spring-actuated mechanism for the cover and a motor-actuated mechanism for the cover. The cover may be moved in a tension/spring-actuated mode under actuation of the spring-actuated mechanism and/or a motor-actuated mode under actuation by the motor-actuated mechanism. The cover may move on a track system comprising a gear track. The motor-actuated mechanism may comprise a cable-drive system. The spring-actuated mechanism may use spring/tension action to open the cover. The component may comprise a receptacle movable between a retracted position and an extended position. The component may comprise a latch mechanism for the cover actuated by an operator control and/or movement of the receptacle. The component may provide a manually-operated mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jixiang Zhang, Yanhua Ma, Meisui Lin, Zhen Yang
  • Patent number: 11392094
    Abstract: A steady state and transition state multi-variable control method of a turbofan engine based on an active disturbance rejection control theory (ADRC) belongs to the technical field of aero-engine control. Firstly, multiple groups of manipulated variables and controlled variables of a turbofan engine are preliminarily selected, and then the manipulated variables and controlled variables with high correlation are further determined by a correlation analysis method. Each group of control instructions is planned as a tracking trajectory by using a tracking differentiator, and is used as the input of a nonlinear proportional-differential controller together with the current state estimated by the extended state observer to calculate the manipulated variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xian Du, Yanhua Ma, Ximing Sun
  • Publication number: 20220092428
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prediction method for stall and surge of an axial compressor based on deep learning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, preprocessing data with stall and surge of an aeroengine, and partitioning a test data set and a training data set from experimental data. Secondly, constructing an LR branch network module, a WaveNet branch network module and a LR-WaveNet prediction model in sequence. Finally, conducting real-time prediction on the test data: preprocessing test set data in the same manner, and adjusting data dimension according to input requirements of the LR-WaveNet prediction model; giving surge prediction probabilities of all samples by means of the LR-WaveNet prediction model according to time sequence; and giving the probability of surge that data with noise points changes over time by means of the LR-WaveNet prediction model, to test the anti-interference performance of the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ximing SUN, Fuxiang QUAN, Hongyang ZHAO, Yanhua MA, Pan QIN
  • Patent number: 11203446
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for fault diagnosis of the sensors and actuators of an aero-engine based on LFT, and belongs to the field of fault diagnosis of aero-engines. The method comprises: establishing an aero-engine state space model using a combination of a small perturbation method and a linear fitting method; establishing an affine parameter-dependent linear-parameter-varying (LPV) model of the aero-engine based on the model; converting the LPV model of the aero-engine having perturbation signals and sensor and actuator fault signals into a linear fractional transformation (LFT) structure to obtain an synthesis framework of an LPV fault estimator; solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to obtain the solution conditions of the fault estimator; and designing the fault estimator in combination with the LFT structure to realize fault diagnosis of the sensors and actuators of an aero-engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanhua Ma, Xian Du, Rui Wang, Min Liu, Ximing Sun
  • Publication number: 20210364388
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved Smith predictive controller-based aero-engine H? algorithm, and belongs to the technical field of aero-engine control and simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ximing SUN, Xian DU, Yanhua MA
  • Publication number: 20210348567
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of control of aero-engines, and proposes an adaptive boosting algorithm-based turbofan engine direct data-driven control method. First, a turbofan engine controller is designed based on the Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) algorithm, and further, the weight of a training sample is changed by an adaptive boosting algorithm so as to construct a turbofan engine direct data-driven controller combining a plurality of basic learners into strong learners. Compared with the previous solution only adopting LS SVM, the present invention enhances the control precision, improves the generalization ability of the algorithm, and effectively solves the problem of sparsity of samples by the adaptive boosting method. By the adaptive boosting algorithm-based turbofan engine direct data-driven control method designed by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yanhua MA, Nan DING, Ximing SUN, Xudong ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210201155
    Abstract: An intelligent control method for a dynamic neural network-based variable cycle engine is provided. By adding a grey relation analysis method-based structure adjustment algorithm to the neural network training algorithm, the neural network structure is adjusted, a dynamic neural network controller is constructed, and thus the intelligent control of the variable cycle engine is realized. A dynamic neural network is trained through the grey relation analysis method-based network structure adjustment algorithm designed by the present invention, and an intelligent controller of the dynamic neural network-based variable cycle engine is constructed. Thus, the problem of coupling between nonlinear multiple variables caused by the increase of control variables of the variable cycle engine and the problem that the traditional control method relies too much on model accuracy are effectively solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yanhua MA, Xian DU, Ximing SUN, Weiguo XIA
  • Publication number: 20210189973
    Abstract: A bumpless transfer fault tolerant control method for aero-engine under actuator fault is disclosed. For an aero-engine actuator fault, by adopting an undesired oscillation problem produced by an active fault tolerant control method based on a virtual actuator, in order to solve the shortage of the existing control method, a bumpless transfer active fault tolerant control design method for the aero-engine actuator fault is provided, which can guarantee that a control system of the reconfigured aero-engine not only has the same state and output as an original fault-free system without changing the structure and parameters of a controller, to achieve a desired control objective, and that a reconfigured system has a smooth transient state, that is, output parameters such as rotational speed, temperature and pressure do not produce the undesired transient characteristics such as overshoot or oscillation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Yanhua MA, Xian DU, Rui WANG, Tongjian LIU
  • Patent number: 11022524
    Abstract: A stochastic configuration network based turbofan engine health parameter estimation method is disclosed. The stochastic configuration network based turbofan engine health parameter estimation method designed by the present invention combines the model based Kalman filter algorithm and the data-driven based stochastic configuration network, i.e. using the output of the stochastic configuration network as the compensation of the Kalman filter algorithm, so as to take into account the estimated result of the Kalman filter and the estimated result of the stochastic configuration network and improve the estimation accuracy of the original Kalman filter algorithm when the measurable parameters of the turbofan engine are less than the health parameters to be estimated. In addition, the present invention effectively reduces the accuracy loss caused by the poor structure of the neural network through the stochastic configuration network, and improves the generalization ability of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanhua Ma, Xian Du, Ximing Sun, Yuhu Wu, Yanlei Gao
  • Publication number: 20210156314
    Abstract: A method for active fault tolerant control of a turbofan engine control system designs a linear parameter varying gain scheduling robust tracking controller with good dynamic performance. Adaptive estimation of fault amplitude of a sensor and an actuator is realized according to the change of the operating state of the turbofan engine to accurately reconfigure a fault signal. An active fault tolerant control strategy based on a virtual actuator is designed according to a fault estimation result. Without redesigning the controller, through the designed active fault tolerant control strategy, on the premise of ensuring the stability of the control system, a control effect similar to that of the control system without fault is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Nan DING, Yanhua MA, Yanlei GAO, Xian DU, Rui WANG
  • Publication number: 20210140382
    Abstract: A Simulink modeling method for a mechanical hydraulic device of an aeroengine fuel regulator is proposed. The Simulink modeling method can implement high precision simulation of a mechanical hydraulic device of an engine fuel conditioning system, and greatly increase the simulation speed as compared with the existing modeling simulation in AMESim; solve the problem of a double-layered nested algebraic loop occurring when the mechanical hydraulic device is modeled in Simulink, and improve the simulation precision of the system. In addition, because of having certain universality, the resolving method for a double-layered nested algebraic loop can be generalized to resolve other types of algebraic loops. Meanwhile, the parameters of the simulation model provided by the present invention can be conveniently modified, and can provide a reference for modeling simulation of mechanical and hydraulic devices of engine fuel conditioning systems of other types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Ximing SUN, Xian DU, Rui WANG, Yanhua MA, Xinyue WANG
  • Patent number: 11002212
    Abstract: A Simulink modeling method for a mechanical hydraulic device of an aeroengine fuel regulator is proposed. The Simulink modeling method can implement high precision simulation of a mechanical hydraulic device of an engine fuel conditioning system, and greatly increase the simulation speed as compared with the existing modeling simulation in AMESim; solve the problem of a double-layered nested algebraic loop occurring when the mechanical hydraulic device is modeled in Simulink, and improve the simulation precision of the system. In addition, because of having certain universality, the resolving method for a double-layered nested algebraic loop can be generalized to resolve other types of algebraic loops. Meanwhile, the parameters of the simulation model provided by the present invention can be conveniently modified, and can provide a reference for modeling simulation of mechanical and hydraulic devices of engine fuel conditioning systems of other types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ximing Sun, Xian Du, Rui Wang, Yanhua Ma, Xinyue Wang