Henan Key Laboratory of Information based Electrical Appliances(IEA)was founded in 1996, whose predecessor is“Fuzzy Control Technology Center of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry” and theformer China National Light Industry Council“Key Laboratory ofElectrical Appliances”. It was approved by the Department of Science and Technology of Henan province in January 2005, passed the acceptance in December2009,and opened to the public.
After years of construction,IEAhas formed ahigh-level scientific research and academic team in the field of information and electrical appliances science, with academician as academic consultants,and young and middle-aged professors and doctors as the academic backbone. The laboratory has 63 permanent scientific research personnel, including55doctors,18returnees,18professorsand27associate professors. Among them, there are one academician,one national“Ten Thousand Talents Plan”leading talent,oneoutstanding experts of Henan province, one distinguished professors of Henan province, 3 academic and technical leaders in Henanprovince,7outstanding talents in Henan Province Science and Technology Innovation Program, 3 scientific and technological innovation talents in Henan province, 3talents in “ZhongyuanTalentProgram”, one talent in “Outstanding Youth Scientist of Henan”, and 4 talents in “Excellent Youth Scientist of Henan”.
The laboratory has one academician workstation in Henan province and onein Zhengzhou City,oneDistinguished ProfessorPositionof Henan province, two“Henan Innovative Science and Technology Team”, andtwo“Henan University Science and Technology Innovation Team”. The members of the laboratory mainly have a professional background in electrical engineering and automation, and also in electronic information engineering, computer science and technology, and system engineering.
Based on the laboratory, there arefirst-level key disciplineof electrical engineering, and control science and engineering, and a characteristic backbone discipline group for intelligent manufacturing of electrical equipment of Henan province. The laboratory has 2first-level academic master’s degree authorization stations in electrical engineering, and control science and engineering,and4professional master’s degreeauthorization fields in electrical engineering, control engineering, artificial intelligence, and robotics engineering.
The laboratory consists of 15discipline laboratories, as well astraining centers such asIEC61131-3,PROFIBUS/PROFINET,As-iand Siemens industrial control. The existing construction area of the laboratory is2900square meters, and the total value of the equipment ismore than48million RMB.
In recent years, the laboratory has undertaken more than 170enterprise projectsand more than120governmentprojects at the national, provincial, and ministerial levels, completed more than 150 scientific and technological achievements at or above the provincial level, been authorized more than240invention patents, and won more than40provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.
Following the principle of “independent innovation, key development, and serving Henan economy”, the laboratory has gradually condensed into 5 research directions with obvious characteristics and outstanding advantages according to its own foundation and advantages in the process of construction and development:operation and control of new energy power system, special motors and intelligent electric drives, industrial networks and information processing, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence systems, advanced sensors and its measurement and control technologies.
Looking forward to the future, the laboratory will continue to uphold the development concept of“people-oriented, advocating academics, market-driven, and serving the society” and the operating mechanism of“openness, communication, cooperation, and competition”, strive to make great efforts, development and innovation, and strive to build the laboratory into an important scientific research and experimental base, talent training base and academic activity center in the field ofinformationand electrical appliances in our province.