Personal Information
Name: Yang Wenjian Sex: Male Date of Birth: January 1990
Email: ywj19900125@163.com Office: Room 537 of No. 2 Teaching Building
Education and Work History
2021/10- present: Professor, master/doctoral supervisor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
2019/08-2021/08: Postdoctoral, Department of Mechanics and Robotics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2015/09-2019/06: PhD, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
2012/09-2015/06: Master, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
2008/09-2012/06: Bachelor, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
Research Fields and Main Achievements
He is mainly engaged in the research on innovative design of robots and high-end equipment mechanism, with research interests including robotics, structural design of high-end mechanical equipment and intelligent design software. He has presided over one Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one Industry-University Cooperation Collaborative Education Program of the Ministry of Education, undertaken two NSFC general programs and one German ZIM program as a major participant, and has received the scientific research rewards such as National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at the University-Level, and the Innovation Fund for Outstanding Doctoral Students. She has published a Springer monograph in English, published more than 20 SCI papers in the top international journals of robotics and mechanism, such as Mechanism and Machine Theory, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and applied for more than 10 invention patents. He serves as a reviewer for 7 international journals, such as Mechanism and Machine Theory and ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and has been recognized as an outstanding reviewer for Mechanism and Machine Theory for three consecutive years.
Admission Information
He has supervised or assisted in the supervision of more than 20 master and doctoral students, with rich experience in supervising graduate students; he is good at teaching students according to individual needs, and gets along well with students. The research group maintains long-term cooperation with multiple universities and high-tech enterprises in China, and maintains academic exchanges with universities such as University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and York University in Canada. According to student needs, we can recommend them to study for doctoral degree, to be employed in high-tech enterprises or to go abroad for exchange.
Scientific Research Programs
2023/01-2025/12, Comprehensive theoretical study on ******** automatic transmission mechanism configuration, Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.52205036, Principal Investigator.
2022/10-2023/11, Robotics ******** innovative design, Industry-University Cooperation Collaborative Education Program of the Ministry of Education, No.220904701054946, Principal Investigator.
2020/07-2022/06, Development of a rail-guided multi-axis simulator, ZIM, Germany, No.ZF4047825RP9, 700,000 Euros, participant, Principal Investigator.
2020/01-2023/12, Automatic topology synthesis theory of planetary wheel system and automatic innovative design of automatic transmission mechanism based on it, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.51975544, participant, Principal Investigator.
2017/01-2020/12, Automatic synthesis theory of mechanical equipment mechanism sketch based on kinematic chain topology mapping library, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.51675495, participant, Principal Investigator.
Monograph in English
[1] Huafeng Ding; Wenjian Yang; Andrés Kecskeméthy ; Automatic Structural Synthesis and Creative Design of Mechanisms, Springer, 2022.
Selected Papers
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., Kecskeméthy A. (2022). Structural Synthesis towards Intelligent Design of Plane Mechanisms: Current Status and Future Research Trend. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 171: 104715-1-35.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., Kecskeméthy A. (2021). Automatic Structural Synthesis of Non-Fractionated 2-DOF Planetary Gear Trains. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 155: 104125-1-27.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F. (2019): The Complete Set of One-degree-of-freedom Planetary Gear Trains with up to Nine Links. Journal of Mechanical Design, 141(4): 043301-1-22.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., Kecskemethy A. (2019): Automatic Synthesis of Plane Kinematic Chains with Prismatic Pairs and up to 14 Links. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 132: 236-247.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F. (2018): The Perimeter Loop-based Method for the Automatic Isomorphism Detection in Planetary Gear Trains. Journal of Mechanical Design, 140(12): 123302-1-10.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F. (2018): Automatic Detection of Degenerate Planetary Gear Trains with Different Degree of Freedoms. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 64: 320-332.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., Kecskemethy A. (2018): A New Method for the Automatic Sketching of Planar Kinematic Chains. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 121: 755-768.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., Zi B., Zhang D. (2018): New Graph Representation for Planetary Gear Trains. Journal of Mechanical Design, 140(1): 012303-1-10.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., He Y., Wu M. (2017): Studying the Optimal Layout of Topological Graphs to Facilitate the Automatic Sketching of Kinematic Chains. Journal of Mechanical Design, 139(8): 082301-1-10.
Yang W.J., Ding H.F., Lai X.Z., Wu M. (2017): Automatic Synthesis of Planar Simple Joint Mechanisms with up to 19 Links. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 113: 193-207.