Qiang Gao

Qiang Gao


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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2 August 2022 in Energies
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QGQiang Gao
Qiang Gao
SLShuai Lian
Shuai Lian
HYHongwei Yan
Hongwei Yan
In recent years, with the continuous development of new energy, how to efficiently use wind energy has received more and more market attention. Due to cost advantages, the development of small wind turbines is accelerating. Among them, the design and research of the airfoil design and research of the lift vertical axis wind turbine has matured, but because of the aerodynamic characteristics of the lift airfoil structure, it is impossible to start itself at low wind speed, resulting in the waste of low wind speed energy. Although the drag wind turbine has good self-starting performance, the wind energy utilization efficiency in the high-speed state is inefficient. Each has its own unique shortcomings, which directly affects the marketization of small wind turbines. In order to solve these problems, this paper presents a drag-lift hybrid type wind turbine structure based on an NACA0018 symmetrical airfoil, which can adaptively change the blade shape. This design can keep the blade in the drag shape under static and low speed conditions, and adaptively change the lift shape with the increase of speed. In addition, through the research method of CFD numerical simulation combined with physical experiments, the proposed wind turbine design is studied and analyzed from multiple angles. At the same time, the “6DOF + dynamic grid” setting is used to study the influence of the opening angle factor of the drag-lift hybrid blade on the self-starting performance, and the study shows that the design of the drag-lift hybrid blade proposed in this paper has a higher self-starting torque and lower starting wind speed than the traditional lifting blade, and it is observed that the drag-lift hybrid blade has the best self-starting performance when the opening angle of the blade is 80°. At the same time, the problem of switching the blade morphology of the drag-lift hybrid blade is also analyzed, along with how to use the spring to control all this adaptively. In order to better analyze the advantages of the drag-lift hybrid design proposed in this paper, a wind tunnel test was also carried out using the physical model, and the relationship between the leaf tip speed ratio and the wind energy utilization rate was obtained, which intuitively showed the improvement of the wind energy utilization rate of the drag-lift hybrid design compared with the traditional lift blade.

11 November 2023 in Energies
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Pengfei YanPengfei Yan
Pengfei Yan
YLYaning Li
Yaning Li
QGQiang Gao
Qiang Gao
SLShuai Lian
Shuai Lian
QWQihui Wu
Qihui Wu
In this paper, based on the lift-type wind turbine, an adaptive double-drive lift–drag composite vertical-axis wind turbine is designed to improve the wind energy utilization rate. A drag blade was employed to rapidly accelerate the wind turbine, and the width of the blade was adaptively adjusted with the speed of the wind turbine to realize lift–drag conversion. The aerodynamic performance analysis using Fluent showed that the best performance is achieved with a blade curvature of 30° and a drag-type blade width ratio of 2/3. Physical experiments proved that a lift–drag composite vertical-axis wind turbine driven by dual blades can start when the incoming wind speed is 1.6 m/s, which is 23.8% lower than the existing lift-type wind turbine’s starting wind speed of 2.1 m/s. At the same time, when the wind speed reaches 8.8 m/s, the guide rail adaptive drag-type blades all contract and transform into lift-type wind turbine blades. The results show that the comprehensive wind energy utilization rate of the adaptive dual-drive lift–drag composite vertical-axis wind turbine was 5.98% higher than that of ordinary lift-type wind turbines and can be applied to wind power generation in high-wind-speed wind farms.

21 September 2022 in Machines
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QGQiang Gao
Qiang Gao
JXJiaolong Xue
Jiaolong Xue
HYHongwei Yan
Hongwei Yan
In this paper, a compliant control scheme based on the optimization of the contact force of the robot leg is proposed to improve the stability of the whole moving process of the robot. Firstly, according to the motion state of the robot, the change of its center of gravity is analyzed, then the stable gait of the robot is determined by the stability margin, and the smooth control of the robot’s foot trajectory is realized. Finally, the compliant control model of the robot leg is established. In the process of moving, the contact force between the legs and the ground is optimized in real-time, so that the composite robot can walk steadily on uneven terrain. The 3-D model of the scorpion composite robot was built with ADAMS software, and dynamics simulation was carried out according to the compliant control scheme. This paper takes the robot’s walking speed and torso angle as performance evaluation indexes and verifies the effectiveness of the compliant control scheme. The cooperative motion stability test is carried out on the actual uneven terrain. The test results show that the robot’s pitch angle and roll angle are between ±0.5°, which meets the motion stability requirements of the robot and verifies the correctness of the compliant control scheme and control model proposed in this paper.

2 June 2023 in Machines
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Pengfei YanPengfei Yan
Pengfei Yan
YLYaning Li
Yaning Li
QGQiang Gao
Qiang Gao
TWTao Wang
Tao Wang
CZChen Zhang
Chen Zhang
Mesh phasing has a dramatic impact on the static and dynamic behaviours of planetary gear systems. This research investigates the coupled phase-tuning mechanism of two-stage planetary gear systems and the corresponding relationship with the coupled vibration of the system. Due to the inherent meshing symmetry of the system, the phase-coupled tuning mechanism of the two-stage planetary system is derived based on meshing force relationships and coupling characteristics between different stages. The excitation and suppression relationships associated with the teeth number, harmonic order, and coupling vibration of the coupled system are clearly described. To study the effect of coupled phase tuning on the vibration response of a two-stage planetary gear system, a nonlinear dynamic model was established. The vibration responses under different tuning modes were calculated, and a coupled phase-tuning law for two-stage planetary systems was verified. Model 3 was used as a research tool to build a two-stage planetary transmission experimental platform, and the transverse vibration and torsional vibration of the first stage sun gear were analysed to further verify the correctness of the phase-coupling tuning law.

26 September 2022 in IEEE Access
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QGQiang Gao
Qiang Gao
JXJiaolong Xue
Jiaolong Xue
HYHongwei Yan
Hongwei Yan
Aiming at the problem that the current single-objective control model of parallel pumping groups only focuses on the optimization of energy efficiency of operating conditions and operating costs, and cannot adjust the real-time working conditions of the pump group according to the comprehensive energy efficiency state of the pump group in the whole life cycle and adjust the pump group operation strategy accordingly, A multi-objective optimal control model for energy efficiency of a pump set is proposed, which can adjust the weight coefficients of three objective functions autonomously according to the current energy efficiency state of the pump set in the whole life cycle. In this way, the high energy efficiency of the parallel pump group in the low wear stage, that is, the low target deviation and specific energy consumption, and the high reliability in the high wear stage, that is, the lower impeller load improves the efficiency of the pump group in the whole life cycle and extend the service life of the pump group. Determine the multi-objective energy efficiency optimization control model of the pump group, use the main function linear and geometric weighting method, the ideal point value, and the distance deviation method to determine the objective function, and solve the multi-objective ideal point model with the help of LINGO, and obtain the optimal solution of the highest system total efficiency, the lowest pump group specific energy consumption and the highest system reliability. Pareto Frontier Comparison is used to study the transversality of the ideal point model solution set. Experimental results show that through the distribution of the model solution in the indicator space, the model can adjust the control strategy according to the real-time state of the pump group by adjusting the target weight combination.