Chuantong Wang

Tel: +1 (757) 864-5049 FAX: +1 (757) 595-2646wang_chuantong_bg

E-mail: C.Wang@nianet.org

Research Interests

  • Materials Science with aeronautic and space applications;
  • SansEC Sensing Technology and its applications in Industry and Aerospace Engineering;
  • Magnetic Field Response Sensor Interrogation Technology and System;
  • Aircraft Safety Monitoring and Damage Detection in Lighting Strike;
  • SansEC Temperature Sensor for Tire Safety Monitoring;
  • Wireless Passive Sensors in Harsh Environment Application; and
  • Wireless Sensors Network and Wireless Passive Sensor Network.

Education

  • Ph.D (2007), Major: Sensing Systems, Dept. Advanced Systems Control Engineering,  Saga University, JAPAN
  • M.E. (2004) Major: Instrument Science and Technology, Dept. Automatic Measurement and Control, Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology, CHINA
  • B.E. (2002), Major: Measurement, Control Technology and Instrument, Dept. Automatic Measurement and Control, Harbin Institute of Technology, CHINA

Current Research

SansEC (Sans Electric Connections) Temperature Sensor and Its Applications in Tire Safety Monitoring: (R&D 100 award of 2011 Winner)

SansEC (Sans Electric Connection) sensing technology is a new fundamental technical framework of developing inexpensive wireless passive sensors. The SansEC sensor, composed of an open circuit conductive pattern, having no electrical connection, is a general sensing platform that can be applied to applications in many fields. It possesses the unique feature of being able to work after having sustained damage distinguished by the sensor, or rom any previously developed electrical devices, which make it suitable for extreme and harsh environments where other sensors would fail. The SansEC sensor has demonstrated many measurement capabilities, including: damage detection, distance measurement, high speed motion measurement (e.g. tire rotation), posture angle, temperature, chemical component detection, liquid level, material properties (conductivity and dielectric), touch/existence, deformation, and strain.

SansEC was originally developed as a method of having thermal insulation serve as a damage detection system for inflatable space structures. The researchers discovered its additional unique qualities as a new foundational technical framework of developing sensors. The simple design with only a few components makes the device easy and inexpensive to produce.

The sensor represents next generation technology for vehicle tire safety monitoring, which has a potentially large global market. By monitoring temperature, damage and rotation, the sensor can significantly improve vehicle tire safety, thereby significantly advancing vehicle safety by improving the detection of tire damage compared to conventional tire pressure monitoring systems

Dr. Chuantong Wang was named as a winner of a 2011 R&D 100 Award for work done in collaboration with researchers at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) in developing the “SansEC Temperature Sensor.” Dr. Wang was honored at the R&D 100 Awards Banquet on October 13, 2011, in Orlando, FL along with co-inventor Bryant D. Taylor, ATK Space Systems, and Principal Investigator, the late Dr. Stanley E. Woodard, Senior Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center. The R&D 100 Awards, widely recognized as the “Oscars of Innovation” salute the 100 most technologically significant products from around the world introduced into the marketplace over the past year. Winners of the R&D 100 Awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine.

 

For more information about this work, please refer to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rQmIlO-oTE

NASA Aviation Safety Program—Atmospheric Environmental Safety Technologies (AEST) Project—Atmospheric Hazard Sensing & Mitigation (AHSM

Lightning strikes are a serious threat to the safety of aircraft. This is especially true for those who possess a considerable amount of composite material structures. Statistics on lightning strikes reported by aircraft pilots indicate that an aircraft is likely to receive one or two lightning strikes per year on average. Research is being conducted to develop a new method and system for aircraft protection, damage detection, and diagnosis in lightning strike events. The concept is to apply a SansEC sensor array on the surface of the aircraft as a “smart skin” layer. The research is being conducted by the Lightning Electromagnetic Effects & Mitigation (LEEM) team under the AEST project at Electromagnetics and Sensors Branch of NASA Langley Research Center.

Publications

  • Chuantong Wang, Kenneth L. Dudley and George N. Szatkowski,  “Open Circuit Resonant (SansEC) Sensor for Composite Damage Detection and Diagnosis in Aircraft Lightning Environments”, AIAA  Atmospheric Space Environments Conference, New Orleans, LA, Jun. 25-28, 2012.
  • Chuantong Wang, Bryant D. Taylor, “SansEC Temperature Sensor for Tire Safety Monitoring Application”, Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, Nov. 7-8, 2011.
  •  Stanley E. Woodard, Chuantong Wang and Bryant D. Taylor “Wireless temperature sensing using temperature-sensitive dielectrics within responding electric fields of open-circuit sensors having no electrical connections”, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1-11, 2010.
  • Chuantong Wang, Stanley E. Woodard, Bryant D. Taylor, “Sensing of multiple unrelated tire parameters using electrically open-circuit sensors having no electrical connections”, Sensors Applications Symposium, 2009. SAS 2009. IEEE, New Orleans, LA, 17-19 Feb. 2009.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A new method for on-line monitoring of brake fluid condition using enclosed reference probe,” Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 18, pp. 3625-3635, 2007.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A low-cost double-fiber model distributed optical fiber sensor,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 1481-1487, 2007.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A multifunctional double-fiber model distributed optical fiber sensor,” Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 46, No.2, pp. 852-855, 2007.
  • Chuantong Wang, Akira Kimoto and Katsunori Shida, “A low cost quasi-distributed strain sensor based on multimode fiber coupling,” The Papers of Technical Meeting on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEE Japan, No. IM-07-31, Saga, Japan, November 16, 2007.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “Study on low-cost double-fiber model sensor for distributed strain monitoring,” 12th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference/16th International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication (OEEC/IOOC 2007), Yokohama, Japan, July 9-13, 2007.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A new multifunctional space angle sensor using capacitance method,” IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines, Vol. 126, No.1, pp. 1-6, 2006.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A multifunctional brake fluid condition monitoring sensor based on self-reference concept” The Papers of Technical Meeting on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEE Japan, No. IM-06-45, Saga, Japan, November 16, 2006.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A multifunctional self-calibrated sensor for brake fluid condition monitoring,” Proceedings of IEEE Sensors Conference, Daegu, Korea, October 22-25, 2006.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A novel multifunctional distributed optical fiber sensor based on attenuation,” Proceedings of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC/06), Sorrento, Italy, April 24-27, 2006.
  • Chuantong Wang and Katsunori Shida, “A multifunctional space angle sensor using capacitance method,” The Papers of Technical Meeting on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEE Japan, No. IM-05-43, Saga, Japan, October 6, 2005.

Patent Application

  • “Wireless temperature sensor having no electrical connections and sensing method for use therewith,” Woodard, S. E., Wang, C., Taylor, B. D., Submitted to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Feb 17, 2011. US Patent Application No. 13/029471.

Chapter in Book

  • Chuantong Wang, “Low Cost Multi-fiber Model Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor,” Optical Fibre New Developments, Chapter 12, INTECH, ISBN 978-953-7619-50-3, December 2009.