Four faculty members of Division of Science and Technology (DST) of UIC projects were funded by the foundation, they are Prof. Sun Weiwei from AM, Dr. Alice Hui from STAT, Dr. Donald Chen from DS and Prof. Amy Zhang from CST.

Prof Amy Zhang's project is research on the Visual Diagnosis Method of Wind Turbine Blade Faults Based on 3D Dynamic Attitude Reconstruction. This project was awarded a funding amount of 590,000RMB.

Prof Zhang is currently the Programme Director of Computer Science and Technology and Programme Director of MPDS of UIC. She is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She obtained a PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong, and her research areas include computer vision, graphics, pattern recognition and machine learning.

Prof Zhang's project combines artificial intelligence with engineering by using machine perception and machine vision technology. Aiming at the outstanding problems of blade’s fault diagnosis online, such as high cost and difficult implementation, the project proposed a new theory and new method for fault diagnosis based on contour information to reconstruct the three-dimensional posture characteristics of the blade. This scheme not only avoids deploying sensors or adding marking points but also reduces the demand for image acquisition equipment, laying a theoretical and technical foundation for online fault diagnosis of fan blades, which has important scientific and engineering significance.

From MPRO
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Covee Wang, Zhang Fan