ID: NEWS2024-No.2

Time: March 25, 2024

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Professor Shugen Ma from the Thrust of Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) visited Harbin Institute of Technology at the invitation of Professor Zongquan Deng for an academic exchange. During the visit, Professor Ma delivered a lecture titled “From Study of Biomimetic Robotics to Design of Environment-Adaptive Robotic Mechanisms”. The lecture took place on the 25th from 10:00 to 11:30 at Room K723 in the Technology Innovation Building (TIB).

This article is contributed by Bo Tang.

ID: NEWS2024-No.1

Time: March 13, 2024

Place: Harbin, China

Event: The selection process for the seventh batch of Young Scientist Studios at Harbin Institute of Technology is completed, with a total of 25 young scientist studios selected across the university. Dr. Qiquan Quan is selected for the Young Scientist Studio Support Program successfully.

This article is contributed by Bo Tang.

ID: NEWS2023-No.8

Time: November 17, 2023

Place: Qinhuangdao, China

Event: The First National Conference on Space Mechanism organized by the Space Mechanism Division of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) was held in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province from November 3rd to 5th, 2023. Professor Qiquan Quan and his doctoral student, Bo Tang, attended the conference. On November 5th, in Session 4, Bo Tang presented an academic report titled “Design and optimization of rotor blades for Mars quadcopter.”

This article is contributed by Bo Tang.

ID: NEWS2023-No.6

Time: August 8, 2023

Place: Harbin, China

Event: On July 26, 2023, Ms. Yajun Wu who graduated in 2018, with her parents visit the AMT laboratory. Ph.D. candidate Mr. Bo Tang introduces the development of research about the Mars rotorcraft and asteroid exploration to them. Ms. Yajun Wu also shares her working experience after graduation and discusses freely the current employment situation in Mainland and abroad with Prof. Qiquan Quan.

This article is contributed by Yajun Wu.

ID: NEWS2023-No.4

Time: June 23, 2023

Place: Harbin, China

Event: On June 19, 2023, GDU technical experts Mr. Yuan Xue and Mr. Shuai Song are invited by Prof. Qiquan Quan to participate in a workshop on data flow and communication protocols of UAV in Harbin. The workshop is held at the Volga Manor, Harbin.

Mr. Yuan Xue and Mr. Shuai Song have a deep technical exchange with Prof. Qiquan Quan, Prof. Peng Liu, Prof. Rui Wu of Harbin Institute of Technology, engineers and graduate students of the Aerospace Mechanism Testing (AMT) laboratory in data flow and communication protocols. During the meeting, Prof. Qiquan Quan introduces the current progress of development of the Mars rotorcraft of Harbin Institute of Technology; Mr. Kaijie Zhu reports the general design of the Mars rotorcraft; Mr. Bo Tang reports the design of the rotor system of the Mars rotorcraft, and Mr. Huanhe Wang reports the design of the communication protocols.

After the meeting, Prof. Qiquan Quan accompanies Mr. Yuan Xue and Mr. Shuai Song to have lunch together at Volga Manor.

This article is contributed by Bo Tang.

ID: NEWS2023-No.3

Time: June 22, 2023

Place: Harbin, China

Event: On May 31, Yachao Dong, Hao Cai, Yuanxu Wu, Kaiyi Wang, Ming Lu, Yang Xu, Yuheng Wang, Lanchen Kou, the master students of Aerospace Mechanism Testing Laboratory (AMT), worked hard and managed to pass their thesis defenses. Among them, the dissertation of Yachao Dong won the award of “Excellent Master Degree Dissertation of Harbin Institude of Technology”. AMT held a photo shoot for everyone. Teachers and students from the AMT took part in the activity together.

Yachao Dong finished his thesis titled “Design of an attitude control system of Mars helicopter and experimental study” and decide to stay at Harbin Institude of Technology to pursue his PhD degree. Hao Cai finished his thesis titled “Design and experimental study of the Marsbird-IV rotorcraft” and will join China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology(CALT). Yuanxu Wu finished his thesis titled “Development and experimental study of adirectly coil-actuated attitude adjusting rotor” and will join Zetop Technologies Co., Ltd. Kaiyi Wang finished his thesis titled “Optimization of three-dimensional structure and two-dimensional airfoil for Mars rotorcraft blade” and decide to stay at Harbin Institude of Technology to pursue his PhD degree. Ming Lu finished his thesis titled “Design and experimental study of parallelly-actuated ultrasonic metal tube sealing welder” and will join Zetop Technologies Co., Ltd. Yang Xu finished his thesis titled “Design and experimental study of pneumatically-actuated ultrasonic metal spot welder” and decide to stay at Harbin Institude of Technology to pursue his PhD degree. Yuheng Wang finished his thesis titled “Design and experimental study of ultrasonic metal welder for wire harness” and decide to stay at Harbin Institude of Technology to pursue his PhD degree. Lanchen Kou finished his thesis titled “Design and experimental study of torque sensor for high temperature and cryogenic environment” and decide to stay at Harbin Institude of Technology to pursue his PhD degree.

This article is contributed by Yuheng Wang.

ID: NEWS2023-No.2

Time: June 21, 2023

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Dr. Qiquan Quan is elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member on June 21.

ID: NEWS2022-No.12

Time: December 13, 2022

Place: Harbin, China

Event: The Mars atmosphere simulator is a significant experimental setup for testing rotor performance in the simulated atmosphere of Mars. To improve the recovery speed of air pressure inside the tank after the experiment is completed, a larger size air inlet valve is replaced outside the tank, thus reducing the air pressure recovery time to less than 80 minutes. To solve a potential safety hazard that the experimenters are locked in the tank by mistake, a safety valve is installed inside the tank, which can be used for self-rescue in case of emergency to protect the life of the experimenters.

This work is completed by Bo Tang and Yuheng Wang. This article is contributed by Bo Tang.

ID: NEWS2022-No.11

Time: November 17, 2022

Place: Harbin, China

Event: MarsBird-IV is one of the serialized Mars rotorcraft prototypes developed by AMT laboratory. MarsBird-IV employs a parallel swashplate mechanism to realize its attitude control. At present, the prototype is developed and the test of the swashplate attitude adjusting motors is preliminarily completed. A FPGA control circuit drives the servos under the control of an xPC target computer and receives the commands with a delay in the range of 5×10^–5 to 10^–4 s. Experiments show that the angular position control accuracy of servos is ±0.06° so that the servos can reach the designated position quickly and accurately. AMT laboratory will further optimize the control algorithm to reduce the angular position oscillation and improve the control accuracy of the servos.

This work is completed by Yachao Dong and Hao Cai. This article is contributed by Yachao Dong.

ID: NEWS2022-No.10

Time: November 09, 2022

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) is a kind of model-based algorithm design and semi-physical simulation. RCP allows researchers to focus on abstract aspects such as model building and algorithm design, without concentrating on programming and debugging. The AMT laboratory successfully builds the RCP target computer with the help of the abundant modules provided in Simulink Real-Time. The target computer can be used with FPGA to provide adequate I/O interfaces, while the target file system allows researchers to record large amounts of process data. Users can connect the target I/O interface with the controlled object to achieve real-time simulation. The recorded data in the test process can be employed to optimize the control algorithm.

This work is completed by Yuanxu Wu and Qiukui Zhang. This article is contributed by Yuanxu Wu.