Four harmonic analysis and energy metering algorithms based on a new cosine window function (2017)
Journal Article
Zhuang, S., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., & Huang, S. (2017). Four harmonic analysis and energy metering algorithms based on a new cosine window function. Journal of Engineering, 2017(14), 2678-2684. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2017.0845

In order to further improve the calculation accuracy of the windowed fast fourier transform (FFT) interpolation algorithm, this study proposes a four-order Hanning self-multiplication window, and based on this new window function, four kinds of windo... Read More about Four harmonic analysis and energy metering algorithms based on a new cosine window function.

Investigating the quality inspection process of offshore wind turbine blades using B-spline surfaces (2017)
Journal Article
Auger, D., Wang, Q., Trevelyan, J., Huang, S., & Zhao, W. (2018). Investigating the quality inspection process of offshore wind turbine blades using B-spline surfaces. Measurement, 115, 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2017.10.027

Wind turbines can only extract their rated amount of power if their blades conform closely to the Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD). This is quantified by reconstructing B-spline surfaces from measurement data taken from the blade. For reliable... Read More about Investigating the quality inspection process of offshore wind turbine blades using B-spline surfaces.

Problems in the classic frequency shift islanding detection methods applied to energy storage converters and a coping strategy (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, M., Zhao, W., Huang, S., Wang, Q., & Shi, K. (2018). Problems in the classic frequency shift islanding detection methods applied to energy storage converters and a coping strategy. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 33(2), 496-505. https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2017.2761851

This paper first derives a usable formula based on the parallel R, L, C load and the conclusions from frequency shift islanding detection methods in current literature: the angle by which the total output current of the distributed resources (DR) uni... Read More about Problems in the classic frequency shift islanding detection methods applied to energy storage converters and a coping strategy.

A new algorithm for a fast testing and sorting system applied to battery clustering (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Q., Cheng, X., & Wang, J. (2017). A new algorithm for a fast testing and sorting system applied to battery clustering. In Renewable energy resources impact : 2017 6th International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP) : Santa Margherita Ligure, 27-29 June 2017 (397-402). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccep.2017.8004846

Battery clustering is to sort out homogeneous battery cells to form a battery pack with high uniformity, which is of great importance to prolong the cycle life of the lithium-ion battery. The traditional method for battery clustering is to compare th... Read More about A new algorithm for a fast testing and sorting system applied to battery clustering.

Accelerated optimizations of an electromagnetic acoustic transducer with artificial neural networks as metamodels (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Huang, S., Wang, Q., Peng, L., & Zhao, W. (2017). Accelerated optimizations of an electromagnetic acoustic transducer with artificial neural networks as metamodels. Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems, 6(2), 269-284. https://doi.org/10.5194/jsss-6-269-2017

Electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) are noncontact transducers generating ultrasonic waves directly in the conductive sample. Despite the advantages, their transduction efficiencies are relatively low, so it is imperative to build accurate m... Read More about Accelerated optimizations of an electromagnetic acoustic transducer with artificial neural networks as metamodels.

Device and method for detecting defect in main shaft of wind turbine (2017)
Patent
Huang, S., Zhao, W., Zhang, Y., Wang, Q., & Wang, S. (2020). Device and method for detecting defect in main shaft of wind turbine

Lithium-ion laptop battery test and energy recycling (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Zhou, J., Wang, Q., & Wang, J. (2017). Lithium-ion laptop battery test and energy recycling. In Proceedings of the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2017) : August 6-9, 2017, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2017-67803

Before recycling used lithium-ion laptop batteries, testing and sorting work is needed through charge and discharge tests. For current lithium-ion battery charge and discharge tests, the battery is discharged through a resistor. Thus, the energy in t... Read More about Lithium-ion laptop battery test and energy recycling.

Novel annular flow electromagnetic measurement system for drilling engineering (2017)
Journal Article
Ge, L., Wei, G., Wang, Q., Hu, Z., & Li, J. (2017). Novel annular flow electromagnetic measurement system for drilling engineering. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(18), 5831-5839. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2017.2734640

Downhole micro-flux control drilling technology can effectively solve drilling accidents, such as kick and loss in narrow density window drilling scenarios. Using a downhole annular flow measurement system to obtain real-time information of downhole... Read More about Novel annular flow electromagnetic measurement system for drilling engineering.

Electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave long-term monitoring and data difference adaptive extraction method for buried oil-gas pipelines (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Huang, S., Zhao, W., Wang, S., & Wang, Q. (2017). Electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave long-term monitoring and data difference adaptive extraction method for buried oil-gas pipelines. International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 54(3), 329-339. https://doi.org/10.3233/jae-160115

An increasing number of buried oil-gas pipelines are generated in recent years and defects occur with higher probability in their long-running process. This work proposes an electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave (EUGW) long-term monitoring scheme fo... Read More about Electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave long-term monitoring and data difference adaptive extraction method for buried oil-gas pipelines.

Research on the Architecture and its Implementation for Instrumentation and Measurement Cloud (2017)
Journal Article
He, H., Zhao, W., Huang, S., Fox, G., & Wang, Q. (2020). Research on the Architecture and its Implementation for Instrumentation and Measurement Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 13(5), 944-957. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2017.2723006

Cloud computing has brought a new method of resource utilization and management. Nowadays some researchers are working on cloud-based instrumentation and measurement systems designated as Instrumentation and Measurement Clouds (IMCs). However, until... Read More about Research on the Architecture and its Implementation for Instrumentation and Measurement Cloud.

Profile imaging of actual defects in steel plate based on electromagnetic ultrasonic SH guided wave scattering (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Wang, Q., Huang, S., & Zhao, W. (2017). Profile imaging of actual defects in steel plate based on electromagnetic ultrasonic SH guided wave scattering. Insight - Non-Destructive Testing & Condition Monitoring, 59(7), 383-388. https://doi.org/10.1784/insi.2017.59.7.383

Defects occur almost inevitably during the service life of steel plate structures. Industrial safety requirements for steel plate structures are increasingly stringent and the need for defect imaging is urgent. This work proposes a profile imaging me... Read More about Profile imaging of actual defects in steel plate based on electromagnetic ultrasonic SH guided wave scattering.

Modelling and optimization of four-segment shielding coils of current transformers (2017)
Journal Article
Gao, Y., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., Qu, K., Li, H., Shao, H., & Huang, S. (2017). Modelling and optimization of four-segment shielding coils of current transformers. Sensors, 17(6), Article 1218. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17061218

Applying shielding coils is a practical way to protect current transformers (CTs) for large-capacity generators from the intensive magnetic interference produced by adjacent bus-bars. The aim of this study is to build a simple analytical model for th... Read More about Modelling and optimization of four-segment shielding coils of current transformers.

Mode identification of broadband lamb wave signal with squeezed wavelet transform (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Huang, S., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., & Zhao, W. (2017). Mode identification of broadband lamb wave signal with squeezed wavelet transform. Applied Acoustics, 125, 91-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.04.014

Multiple wave modes often exist in the ultrasonic guided waves simultaneously, and these modes are dispersive, so the guided wave signals are very complex, even for the relatively simple situation of a narrowband excitation. The guided wave signals a... Read More about Mode identification of broadband lamb wave signal with squeezed wavelet transform.

Automatic 3D model acquisition for unknown objects based on hybrid vision technology (2017)
Journal Article
Fang, W., Zheng, L., He, B., & Wang, Q. (2017). Automatic 3D model acquisition for unknown objects based on hybrid vision technology. International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, 18(3), 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-017-0035-2

Three-dimensional (3D) model acquisition is the process of building a 3D model of an object. But due to the limited field of view of the scanner, this task is mainly performed by taking several scans with human intervention. In order to make the 3D m... Read More about Automatic 3D model acquisition for unknown objects based on hybrid vision technology.