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An Interharmonic phasor and frequency estimator for subsynchronous oscillation identification and monitoring (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Zhao, W., Wang, F., Wang, Q., & Huang, S. (2019). An Interharmonic phasor and frequency estimator for subsynchronous oscillation identification and monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(6), 1714-1723. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2018.2879998

Recently, subsynchronous oscillations (SSOs) have occurred frequently due to the interaction between wind farm controllers and transmission networks. When an SSO occurs, subsynchronous and supersynchronous interharmonics are present in a voltage/curr... Read More about An Interharmonic phasor and frequency estimator for subsynchronous oscillation identification and monitoring.

Characteristics of Negative Corona Discharge in Air at Various Gaps (2018)
Journal Article
Sun, H., Huang, S., Wang, Q., Wang, S., & Zhao, W. (2018). Characteristics of Negative Corona Discharge in Air at Various Gaps. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 47(14), 736-741. https://doi.org/10.1109/tps.2018.2884696

The length of the air gap in a negative corona discharge, which affects many corresponding parameters in the discharge process, is of vital importance for the physical investigations. A hydrodynamic drift–diffusion approximation model considering pho... Read More about Characteristics of Negative Corona Discharge in Air at Various Gaps.

Constrained optimization of a meander line EMAT generating S0 mode Lamb waves with genetic algorithms (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Huang, S., Wang, Q., Wang, Z., & Zhao, W. (2018). Constrained optimization of a meander line EMAT generating S0 mode Lamb waves with genetic algorithms. International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 58(4), 411-429. https://doi.org/10.3233/jae-180086

In this work a multiphysics model of a meander line electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) to generate S0 mode Lamb waves in an aluminum plate is built and the structural parameters of the transducer are optimized based on the model. Three approa... Read More about Constrained optimization of a meander line EMAT generating S0 mode Lamb waves with genetic algorithms.

New measurement algorithm for supraharmonics based on multiple measurement vectors model and orthogonal matching pursuit (2018)
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Zhuang, S., Zhao, W., Wang, R., Wang, Q., & Huang, S. (2019). New measurement algorithm for supraharmonics based on multiple measurement vectors model and orthogonal matching pursuit. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(6), 1671-1679. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2018.2878613

There are many cases of electromagnetic interference caused by supraharmonics emitted by power electronic equipment. However, there is currently no effective method for measuring supraharmonics. This paper proposes a new supraharmonics high-resolutio... Read More about New measurement algorithm for supraharmonics based on multiple measurement vectors model and orthogonal matching pursuit.

Dynamic Harmonic Synchrophasor Estimator based on Sinc Interpolation Functions (2018)
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Chen, L., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., Wang, F., & Huang, S. (2019). Dynamic Harmonic Synchrophasor Estimator based on Sinc Interpolation Functions. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(9), 3054-3065. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2018.2876074

This paper introduces a new dynamic harmonic synchrophasor estimator (DHSE) based on the Shannon sampling theorem. Each dynamic harmonic phasor is modeled as a weighted sum of a series of sinc interpolation functions. Based on this, a bank of finite... Read More about Dynamic Harmonic Synchrophasor Estimator based on Sinc Interpolation Functions.

Characterizing excitability of Lamb waves generated by electromagnetic acoustic transducers with coupled frequency domain models (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Huang, S., Wang, Q., Wang, Z., & Zhao, W. (2019). Characterizing excitability of Lamb waves generated by electromagnetic acoustic transducers with coupled frequency domain models. Ultrasonics, 93, 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2018.10.013

Electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) are versatile non-contact ultrasonic transducers with relatively low transduction efficiency. A fundamental problem not answered completely yet is how the structure of an EMAT influences the generation of... Read More about Characterizing excitability of Lamb waves generated by electromagnetic acoustic transducers with coupled frequency domain models.

Design of a test platform for the determination of Lithium-ion batteries state of health (2018)
Journal Article
Capitaine, J., & Wang, Q. (2019). Design of a test platform for the determination of Lithium-ion batteries state of health. Journal of Mechanical Design, 141(2), Article 021702. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4041855

This paper presents a novel design for a test platform to determine the State of Health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries. The SOH is a key parameter of a battery energy storage system and its estimation remains a challenging issue. The batteries that h... Read More about Design of a test platform for the determination of Lithium-ion batteries state of health.

Study of the influence of temperature on the measurement accuracy of transit-time ultrasonic flowmeters (2018)
Journal Article
Ge, L., Deng, H., Wang, Q., Hu, Z., & Li, J. (2019). Study of the influence of temperature on the measurement accuracy of transit-time ultrasonic flowmeters. Sensor Review, 39(2), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr-01-2018-0005

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to deal largely with the influence of temperature variation on the measurement accuracy of transit-time ultrasonic flowmeter. Design/methodology/approach: The causes of measurement error due to temperature are qu... Read More about Study of the influence of temperature on the measurement accuracy of transit-time ultrasonic flowmeters.

An Opening Profile Recognition Method for Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals of Defect (2018)
Journal Article
Huang, S., Peng, L., Wang, Q., & Wang, S. (2019). An Opening Profile Recognition Method for Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals of Defect. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(6), 2229-2236. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2018.2869438

The defect opening profile recognition is of great concern in the magnetic flux leakage (MFL) measurement technique. The detected spatial MFL signal has three components: horizontal, vertical, and normal components. Horizontal and normal component si... Read More about An Opening Profile Recognition Method for Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals of Defect.

An irregular current injection islanding detection method based on an improved impedance measurement scheme (2018)
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Liu, M., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., Huang, S., & Shi, K. (2018). An irregular current injection islanding detection method based on an improved impedance measurement scheme. Energies, 11(2474), Article 2474. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11092474

One class of islanding detection methods, known as impedance measurement-based methods and voltage change monitoring-based methods, are implemented through injecting irregular currents into the network, for which reason they are defined in this paper... Read More about An irregular current injection islanding detection method based on an improved impedance measurement scheme.

Optimising the delivery and pick-up routes for packed water bottles (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Q., & Munthe, T. (2018, September). Optimising the delivery and pick-up routes for packed water bottles. Presented at 16th International Conference on Manufacturing Research., Skövde, Sweden

This paper proposes an optimal solution for optimizing the route in delivery and pick-up paths from the manufacturer (depot) to the customers using packed water bottles as the case study. The model of packed water bottles' traveling routes with simul... Read More about Optimising the delivery and pick-up routes for packed water bottles.

Enhanced Interpolated Dynamic DFT Synchrophasor Estimator Considering Second Harmonic Interferences (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Zhao, W., Wang, F., Wang, Q., & Huang, S. (2018). Enhanced Interpolated Dynamic DFT Synchrophasor Estimator Considering Second Harmonic Interferences. Sensors, 18(9), Article 2748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18092748

In the future, phasor measurement units are expected to be applied in distribution networks (DNs) for their control and monitoring. Because of the widely used power electronic devices in DNs, harmonics are widely present in a voltage/current signal.... Read More about Enhanced Interpolated Dynamic DFT Synchrophasor Estimator Considering Second Harmonic Interferences.

An improved random forest model of short-term wind-power forecasting to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and robustness (2018)
Journal Article
Shi, K. P., Qiao, Y., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., Liu, M. H., & Lu, Z. (2018). An improved random forest model of short-term wind-power forecasting to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and robustness. Wind Energy, 21(12), 1383-1394. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2261

Short‐term wind‐power forecasting methods like neural networks are trained by empirical risk minimization. The local optimum and overfitting problem is likely to occur in the model‐training stage, leading to the poor ability of reasoning and generali... Read More about An improved random forest model of short-term wind-power forecasting to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.

Development of a new EMAT for multi-helical SH guided waves based on magnetostrictive effect (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Huang, S. L., Wang, S., Wang, Q., & Zhao, W. (2018, May). Development of a new EMAT for multi-helical SH guided waves based on magnetostrictive effect. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Houston, TX, USA

Electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) have the advantage of non-contact and have been widely used in nondestructive testing (NDT). However, the propagation of the guided wave generated by present transducers is either concentrated with narrow... Read More about Development of a new EMAT for multi-helical SH guided waves based on magnetostrictive effect.

Improved interpolated dynamic DFT synchrophasor estimator considering second harmonic interferences (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, L., Zhao, W., Yu, Y., Wang, Q., & Huang, S. (2018, May). Improved interpolated dynamic DFT synchrophasor estimator considering second harmonic interferences. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Houston, TX, USA

The interpolated dynamic DFT (IpDFT) is one of the most accurate dynamic synchrophasor estimation methods. But it suffers from infiltration from the second harmonic component. In this paper, the estimation errors of the IpDFT caused by second harmoni... Read More about Improved interpolated dynamic DFT synchrophasor estimator considering second harmonic interferences.

Design of a test platform for the determination of lithium-ion batteries state-of-health (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capitaine, J.-A., & Wang, Q. (2018, August). Design of a test platform for the determination of lithium-ion batteries state-of-health. Presented at ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conference & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2018, Quebec City, Canada

This paper presents a novel design for a test platform to determine the State of Health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries. The SOH is a key parameter of a battery energy storage system and its estimation remains a challenging issue. The batteries that h... Read More about Design of a test platform for the determination of lithium-ion batteries state-of-health.

Design and Optimization of Annular Flow Electromagnetic Measurement System for Drilling Engineering (2018)
Journal Article
Ge, L., Li, H., Wang, Q., Wei, G., Hu, Z., Liao, J., & Li, J. (2018). Design and Optimization of Annular Flow Electromagnetic Measurement System for Drilling Engineering. Journal of Sensors, 2018, Article 4645878. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4645878

Using the downhole annular flow measurement system to get real-time information of downhole annular flow is the core and foundation of downhole microflux control drilling technology. The research work of electromagnetic flowmeter in recent years crea... Read More about Design and Optimization of Annular Flow Electromagnetic Measurement System for Drilling Engineering.

Design of equivalent coils for anti- interference testing of heavy current transformers (2018)
Journal Article
Gao, Y., Zhao, W., Qu, K., Li, H., Shao, H., Wang, Q., & Huang, S. (2018). Design of equivalent coils for anti- interference testing of heavy current transformers. International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 56(2), 211-223. https://doi.org/10.3233/jae-170052

Heavy current transformers (HCTs) for large generators are intensively interfered by the stray magnetic field produced by heavy adjacent currents, and therefore, anti-interference testing is a crucial process to assure the robustness of HCT products.... Read More about Design of equivalent coils for anti- interference testing of heavy current transformers.