The Sun-chasing project: Innovation, simulation, prototype and experiment

Duan Baoyan (Xidian University, Xi’an, China)

Biography: Duan Baoyan received Ph.D. with Electromechanical Engineering from XDU in 1989. He then studied, from 1991 to 1994, as Postdoctoral Fellow at Liverpool University, U.K. and worked, in 2000, as Visiting Scientist at Cornell University, USA. He is currently a full Professor in the School of Electromechanical Engineering at XDU, where he founded State Key Lab. of Electromechanical Integrated Manufacturing of High-performance Electronic Equipment, China. His has been dedicating himself in research of electromechanical engineering and opened a new area of electromechanical coupling (EMC) theory among electromagnetic, structural deformation and temperature fields of microwave electronic equipment (MEE). He has made known the influence mechanism (IM) of nonlinear mechanical parameters on electronic performance of MEE. He developed the integrated design methodology of MEE based on EMC and IM. The above academic achievements have been successfully applied in national major engineering projects such as the deep space exploration, the spacecraft, space deployable antenna, FAST and so on. He is Fellows of Int. Engineering and Technology (IET), Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and Int. Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO). He is engaged as the associate editors of Int. Journals such as Solar Energy Research, ACTA Astronautics, Simulation & Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, IEEE Transaction on Internet of Things (IoT), Automation and Intelligence and so on. He is also the Section editor-in-chief of CAE flagship magazine ENGINEERING, the editor-in-chief of Electromechanical Engineering (EME) of China and editor-in-deputy chief of Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE). He has published 400 papers and six books, authorized 40 patents of invention. He has received, as the first contributor, the 1st prize of national award for science and technology progress (STP) of China 2020, and the 2nd prize of national award for STP of China three times (2004, 2008 and 2013). In 2009, he was selected as science Chinese person. In 2012, he was issued Hong Kang HLHL prize of STP. In 2017, he received award for outstanding scientific and technological achievement from CAS and the golden prize of “good design” of China. In 2018, he received the Fellow achievement award from Asian Society of SMO. In 2021, he received the highest STP award from Shaanxi province of China and the award for Qian Xuesen outstanding contributions to the space flight of China. CCTV (China Central Tele Vision station) broadcasted a special program DUAN Baoyan: Minor discipline and Great Vision in 2016. 《Ren Min Ri Bao》broadcasted a special program DUAN Baoyan: Linking the end of Universe with science and technology in 2021.

Abstract: Nuclear fusion (NF) and space solar power station (SSPS) are the known technologies to break the energy crisis faced by human society. As far as SSPS is concerned, one of the key technologies is microwave power transfer (MPT) with long range and high power, which is of widely applications in astronautic, aeronautic, near space, Internet of things, low attitude economy, remote area and so on. This report introduces systematically the state-of-the-art MPT, SSPS, AI aided MPT and electromechanical coupling (EMC) technologies. Firstly, the OMEGA innovation design of SSPS and MPT is presented. Secondary, the transmission technology with high power and narrow beam—high beam collection efficiency (BCE) is developed. Thirdly, high efficiency and high power rectify technology as well as information—power transfer simultaneously is descried. Fourthly, the technology of AI aided MPT is discussed. And finally, The Sun chasing project: the OMEGA-SSPS prototype with whole links and whole systems and experiment result are given in detail to demonstrate the innovation design and key technologies.