Our team consists of 9 teachers and 17 graduate students, including 1 Chair Professor of the “Cheung Kong Scholars Program”, 1 winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 Professor of the “Chutian Scholars Program” in Hubei Province, 1 winner of the Hubei Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 young scholar of the “One Hundred Talents Program” in Hubei Province and 2 young scholars of the "Chutian Scholars Program” in Hubei Province. In recent years, we have undertaken 5 scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Hubei Provincial Technical Innovation Major Project, etc. 1. National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2018YFC0603405, Development of intelligent geological drilling technology and equipment, 2018.07-2021.06, 5.33 million RMB. 2. Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61733016, Intelligent control of drilling process for complex geological environment, 2018.01-2022.12, 3 million RMB. 3. Hubei Provincial Technical Innovation Major Project, 2018AAA035, Development and application of key technologies for drilling and production equipment in complex geological environment, 2018.01-2020.12, 1.4 million RMB. 4. Yangtze River Geoscience Project of China University of Geosciences, CUGCJ1812, Development of key technologies in intelligent control of drilling process for complex geological environment, 2019.01-2020.12, 0.5 million RMB. 5. Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, CUG160705, Intelligent technology and equipment for complex geological drilling process, 2016.01-2018.12, 1.5 million RMB. 
Fig. 1 A seminar on the progress of Key Project of NSFC 
Fig. 2 The kick off meeting of Hubei Provincial Technical Innovation Major Project We are passionate about academic cooperation and exchanges. 5 students in our team have been jointly supervised by famous foreign universities such as Swinburne University of Technology, Chiba University, Tokyo University of Engineering, etc.; we have participated in the organization of China Intelligent Geological Equipment Technology Development Forum each year since 2017, and built it into a well-known domestic exchange platform in the field of intelligent geological equipment; we have established long-term cooperative relations with well-known manufacturers, research institutes and drilling sites, including the China Geological Equipment Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an Research Institute of China Coal Technology & Engineering group, Hengyang Zhongdi Equipment Prospecting Engineering Machinery Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Wuxi Mineral Exploration Machinery General Factory Co. Ltd., Jiangsu Hexin Oil Co.,Ltd., etc.; and our team members have attended a number of international conferences like IFAC, Asian Control Conference, Chinese Control Conference, etc. 
Fig. 3 Team members visited Jiangsu Hexin Oil Co.,Ltd 
Fig. 4 Team members attended the 11th Asian Control Conference held in Gold Coast, Australia |
To solve difficult problems in the modeling of characteristic parameter field for complex formation, optimization and deviation correction of drilling trajectory, drilling information detection and condition monitoring, and intelligent coordinating control of drilling process, we have established a web-based big data monitoring center of drilling process, a semi-physical experimental system of drilling tool altitude, and a distributed data acquisition system for drilling process; have published 36 academic papers (including 11 SCI-indexed journal papers); we are the owner of 3 patents and 2 software copyright, and 14 patents are under application. [1] Jun Cheng, Min Wu, Fen Wu, Chengda Lu, Xin Chen, and Weihua Cao, “Modeling and control of drill-string system with stick-slip vibrations using LPV technique,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, to be published, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2020. 2978892. [2] Chao Gan, Weihua Cao, Kangzhi Liu, Min Wu, Fawen Wang, and Suobang Zhang, “A new hybrid bat algorithm and its application to the ROP optimization in drilling processes,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, to be published, https://doi.org/10.1109/TII. 2019.2943165. [3] Chengda Lu, Min Wu, Xin Chen, Weihua Cao, Chao Gan, and Jinhua She, “Torsional vibration control of drill-string systems with time-varying measurement delays,” Information Sciences, vol. 467, pp. 528-548, Oct. 2018. [4] Chao Gan, Weihua Cao, Min Wu, Kangzhi Liu, Xin Chen, Yule Hu, and Fulong Ning, “Two-level intelligent modeling method for the rate of penetration in complex geological drilling process,” Applied Soft Computing, vol. 80, pp. 592-602, 2019. [5] Chao Gan, Weihua Cao, Min Wu, Xin Chen, Yule Hu, Kangzhi Liu, Fawen Wang, and Suobang Zhang, “Prediction of drilling rate of penetration (ROP) using hybrid support vector regression: A case study on the Shennongjia area, Central China,” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, to be published, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.petrol.2019.106200. [6] Xi Chen, Weihua Cao, Chao Gan, Wenkai Hu, and Min Wu, “A hybrid reducing error-correcting output code for lithology identification,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2950269. [7] Yupeng Li, Weihua Cao, Wenkai Hu, and Min Wu, “Diagnosis of downhole incidents for geological drilling processes using multi-time scale feature extraction and probabilistic neural networks,” Process Safety and Environment Protection, 2020, 137: 106-115. [8] Zhen Cai, Xuzhi Lai, Min Wu, Weihua Cao, and Xin Chen. Bilinear compensation control for attitude of directional drilling tools. Control and Desicsion. https://doi.org/10.13195/ j.kzyjc.2018.1528. |
