Please scroll down for the English version - UNNC graduates win gold award in local entrepreneurship competition

近日,在第八届“奇思甬动”中国(宁波)创业创新大赛上,宁波诺丁汉大学在读博士研究生冉燎原团队申报的一款可以使车辆实现实时调节减震模式的半主动电调减震系统项目,从106个高端人才(团队)项目中脱颖而出,获得该大赛金奖。

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据介绍,该系统打破了传统车辆需要手动调节减震系统阻尼系数的桎梏,能够通过安装人机交互终端,实现对车辆减震系统的阻尼系数的及时调节。“比如说,在曲折的山地行驶时,车辆会调节到能够保证车身姿态的减震模式;而在城市道路行驶时,则会选择更能提升舒适度的减震模式。”

该减震系统的研发是冉燎原与他的合作伙伴江东轩共同完成的。2017年,尚在本科的冉燎原与江东轩因对赛车有着相同的兴趣在宁诺理工学院暑期科研项目中结识。2020年,二人开始在宁诺李达三孵化园中合作研发一款电动车减震系统的电子零部件。经过一年多的研发和与合作厂商不断的协商,一款适用于二轮车的半主动电调减震系统横空出世,并开始为二级市场的厂商提供订单产品。

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目前,冉燎原和江东轩的团队都在稳步发展。冉燎原作为理工学院Dunant Halim的博士生仍在宁诺李达三孵化园负责做电调减震器的控制算法、执行器设计、实验分析等工作,而已经毕业的江东轩在一家新西兰的初创电动摩托车公司作为电气工程师,依旧负责项目中整车零部件的上下游供应链、电气系统设计适配等工作。

据冉燎原介绍,现在市面上已有较多他们半主动电调减震器的摩托车用户,如小牛、九号、川崎等,一些产品样机也发往了海外的地区在进行测试。此外,他们正在迭代第二代的减震产品,改进减震器本体设计。未来,他与江东轩也将会找到整车厂进行合作开发,并在产品量产的上下供应链等方面继续发展。

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“这次获奖是对我们项目的肯定和激励,同时也要感谢李达三孵化园一直以来对我们的大力支持。”谈及此次获奖,冉燎原这样说道。

“此外,我还想特别感谢一下自己的导师Dunant Halim博士。在本科时,是Halim博士让我接触到了科研机会,并支持我们课后进行赛车研发。而现在,他也继续为我们电调减震系统的开发进行建议和指导。最后,希望能在未来的电动车智能化的产品上见到我们的身影。”


UNNC graduates win gold award in local entrepreneurship competition

Recently, Liaoyuan Ran, a doctoral student at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), and his team have distinguished themselves out of 106 high-end talent teams and projects after obtaining Gold Award in the Eighth China (Ningbo) “Qisi Yongdong” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition with a semi-active suspension system they developed.

According to Liaoyuan, this system overrides the requirement traditional cars have to adjust the suspension system manually. Instead, the car’s suspension can be adjusted through the installation of a human-machine interaction terminal. “For example, the car will automatically adjust to a suspension mode to stabilise the car’s posture on bumpy mountainous roads and another more comfortable mode on city roads,” Liaoyuan said.

This product is designed by Liaoyuan and his partner, Dongxuan Jiang. They met and cooperated in a UNNC summer research project to design a formula racing car, after which they formed a team to continue formula car development. In 2020, their team developed electronic components for electric vehicles and started their business inside the university’s Li Dak Sum Incubator. After a year, they developed a semi-active suspension system suitable for two wheeled vehicles, which is now in production and provides order products for secondary market manufacturers.

Now, Liaoyuan is still focusing on research related to control algorithm, actuator design and experimental analysis in Li Dak Sum Incubator as a PhD student of Dr Dunant Halim. Dongxuan, currently working for a New Zealand start-up electric motorcycle company as an electrical engineer, is still working on the upstream and downstream supply chain of components and the design and adaptation of electrical systems.

Liaoyuan introduced that now many motorcycle companies have already adopted their suspension system such as Niu, Ninebot as well as Kawasaki. Some prototypes had also been sent overseas for testing. Moreover, they are working on the upgrading of this suspension product. In the future, he and Dongxuan will seek cooperation opportunities with original equipment manufacturers for development and continue to develop the supply chain for mass production.

“This award is an affirmation and encouragement to us, and we really appreciate the strong support of Li Dak Sum Incubator,” said Liaoyuan. “I really appreciate my supervisor, Dr Dunant Halim. When I was an undergraduate, he led me to conduct research and supported our formula racing car project. Now he continues to offer valuable advice and guidance to the development of our suspension system. I hope one day our products will be applied on the intelligent products of electric vehicles."




文字来源 | Johanan Fu,叶周豪

图片来源 |冉燎原,往期微信


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