Basic Information                                                                                                    

Name：Wenxiang Zhao

Professional Title: Professor

E-mail: zwx@ujs.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, China, 212013

Office: Room 413, EE Building

Education                                                                                                          

02/2005-03/2010  Electrical engineering, Southeast University, China, PhD

09/2008-01/2009  Electrical engineering, The University of Hong Kong, China, PhD

09/2000-06/2003  Electrical engineering, Jiangsu University, China, M.S

09/1995-06/1999  Electrical engineering, Jiangsu University, China, B.S

Work Experiences                                                                                                

08/2014-Present  Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, China

07/2013-06/2014  Visiting Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.

06/2008-08/2009  Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests                                                                                                  

Design, analysis and control of permanent-magnet machines

Grants                                                                                                                        

1.       Principal Investigator: Enhanced flux-modulation primary permanent-magnet linear motor and its high performance control, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021.

2.       Principal Investigator: Design and control of permanent-magnet fault-tolerant motor for electric propulsion system, Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province, 2018-2021.

3.       Principal Investigator: Permanent-magnet fault-tolerant motor and its control system, National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young People, 2015-2017.

4.       Principal Investigator: High torque density permanent magnet fault-tolerant vernier motor and its efficient fault-tolerant control, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Young People, 2013-2016.

5.       Principal Investigator: High thrust density fault-tolerant permanent-magnet linear motor and its coordinated control for rail transit, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2012-2016.

List of selected papers                                                                                              

1.           Zhao Wenxiang, Zhao Peng, Xu Dezhi, Chen Zhonghua, Zhu Jihong. Hybrid modulation fault-tolerant control of open-end windings linear vernier permanent-magnet motor with floating capacitor inverter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2019, 34(3): 2563-2572.

2.           Zhao Wenxiang, Zhu Jian, Ji Jinghua, Zhu Xuhui. Improvement of power factor in a double side linear flux-modulation permanent-magnet motor for long stroke applications.  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019, 66(5): 3391-3400.

3.           Chen Qian, Zhao Wenxiang, Liu Guohai, Lin Zhipeng. Extension of virtual-signal-injection-based MTPA control for five-phase IPMSM into fault tolerant operation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019, 66(2): 944-955.

4.           Zheng Junqiang, Zhao Wenxiang, Ji Jinghua, Zhu Jihong, Gu Chenyu, Zhu Shengdao. Design to reduce rotor losses in fault-tolerant permanent-magnet machines. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018, 65(11): 8476-8487.

5.           Zhao Wenxiang, Binyu Wu, Qian Chen, Jihong Zhu. Fault-tolerant direct thrust force control for a dual inverter fed open-end winding linear vernier permanent-magnet motor using improved SVPWM. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018, 65(9): 7458-7467.