Patents by Inventor Zhaorong Zeng

Zhaorong Zeng 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: 11874336
    Abstract: A method and a system for diagnosing a fault of a three-phase three-level rectifier are relate to the technical field of fault diagnosis of power electronic equipment, and provided to implement identification and location of an open-circuit fault of a power switching device thereof. A deviation between an expected value and an actual value of a phase-to-phase voltage is adopted as a diagnosis variable. The diagnosis variable is calculated by adopting a screening technique, thereby reducing calculation error to ensure accuracy of diagnosis. Only existing voltage current signals in a control system of the rectifier are required to calculate the diagnosis variable, so no additional hardware is required and low-cost fault diagnosis can be implemented. Different voltage thresholds are adopted for different fault characteristic sections, and the voltage thresholds are updated in real time according to a direct current side voltage, which improves diagnosis speed while ensuring higher robustness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang He, Mingyun Chen, Chunsong Sui, Zhaorong Zeng, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11520676
    Abstract: A method and a system for power equipment diagnosis based on windowed feature and Hilbert visualization are provided, which belong to the field of power equipment fault diagnosis. The method includes: obtaining an original data set of monitoring data containing power equipment fault features; introducing windowed feature calculation considering logarithmic constraints to process data to obtain a feature sequence; using Hilbert visualization method for further processing to obtain a Hilbert image data set used to train and verify a convolutional neural network; and finally directly inputting newly obtained test sample data after windowed feature calculation and Hilbert visualization processing into the trained network for fault diagnosis and location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang He, Xiaoxin Wu, Jiajun Duan, Xiaoyan Liu, Lie Li, Zhaorong Zeng
  • Patent number: 11360128
    Abstract: Provided are a failure diagnosis method and apparatus for open circuit failure of a power tube of a three-phase rectifier based on a current signal, relating to a failure diagnosis technique for power electronic equipment and capable of quickly and accurately diagnosing on an open circuit failure of the power tube of the three-phase rectifier without adding a hardware component. The failure diagnosis method only requires a sampled current existing in the control system of the rectifier and some intermediate computing signals and is therefore simple and requires little computing resource. A distorted current after the open circuit failure occurs in the power tube of the rectifier and a positive/negative half cycle where the current is present when the failure occurs serve as diagnostic variables. By analyzing the sampled current, a quick diagnosis on the power tube having the open circuit failure is provided. Thus, the invention is highly applicable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang He, Chunsong Sui, Hui Zhang, Bolun Du, Zhaorong Zeng, Mingyun Chen
  • Publication number: 20220146592
    Abstract: A method and a system for diagnosing a fault of a three-phase three-level rectifier are relate to the technical field of fault diagnosis of power electronic equipment, and provided to implement identification and location of an open-circuit fault of a power switching device thereof. A deviation between an expected value and an actual value of a phase-to-phase voltage is adopted as a diagnosis variable. The diagnosis variable is calculated by adopting a screening technique, thereby reducing calculation error to ensure accuracy of diagnosis. Only existing voltage current signals in a control system of the rectifier are required to calculate the diagnosis variable, so no additional hardware is required and low-cost fault diagnosis can be implemented. Different voltage thresholds are adopted for different fault characteristic sections, and the voltage thresholds are updated in real time according to a direct current side voltage, which improves diagnosis speed while ensuring higher robustness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang HE, Mingyun Chen, Chunsong Sui, Zhaorong Zeng, Hui ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220100624
    Abstract: A method and a system of identifying and estimating a complex analog circuit failure, belonging to the field of power electronic circuit failure prediction. The method includes the following steps: building a degradation simulation model of an analog circuit to be diagnosed, performing a parameter aging simulation experiment on different devices; extracting a time domain feature of each of output signals by using a time-series transformation method, building a health index of each of the devices based on angle similarity; identifying whether the analog circuit to be diagnosed is degraded and a starting point of degradation by combining a time moving window and a convolutional neural network; multiplexing part of hidden layers of the convolutional neural network and a long short term memory-recurrent neural network to estimate a health state of a degraded analog circuit; and evaluating prediction accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang HE, Ming Xiang, Hui ZHANG, Zhaorong Zeng, Zhijian Hu, Fuping Zeng, Kaipei LIU
  • Publication number: 20210389352
    Abstract: Provided are a failure diagnosis method and apparatus for open circuit failure of a power tube of a three-phase rectifier based on a current signal, relating to a failure diagnosis technique for power electronic equipment and capable of quickly and accurately diagnosing on an open circuit failure of the power tube of the three-phase rectifier without adding a hardware component. The failure diagnosis method only requires a sampled current existing in the control system of the rectifier and some intermediate computing signals and is therefore simple and requires little computing resource. A distorted current after the open circuit failure occurs in the power tube of the rectifier and a positive/negative half cycle where the current is present when the failure occurs serve as diagnostic variables. By analyzing the sampled current, a quick diagnosis on the power tube having the open circuit failure is provided. Thus, the invention is highly applicable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang HE, Chunsong Sui, Hui ZHANG, Bolun DU, Zhaorong Zeng, Mingyun Chen
  • Publication number: 20210365342
    Abstract: A method and a system for power equipment diagnosis based on windowed feature and Hilbert visualization are provided, which belong to the field of power equipment fault diagnosis. The method includes: obtaining an original data set of monitoring data containing power equipment fault features; introducing windowed feature calculation considering logarithmic constraints to process data to obtain a feature sequence; using Hilbert visualization method for further processing to obtain a Hilbert image data set used to train and verify a convolutional neural network; and finally directly inputting newly obtained test sample data after windowed feature calculation and Hilbert visualization processing into the trained network for fault diagnosis and location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang HE, Xiaoxin WU, Jiajun DUAN, Xiaoyan Liu, Lie LI, Zhaorong Zeng