On October 20, the 3rd "Electrifying the Future · Steering with Intelligent Control" Frontier Lecture on Electrical Engineering and Control, hosted by the School of Electrical Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University, was held in the Lecture Hall 203 of the Double First-Class Conference Center.

This session invited industry experts from rail transit, electric power and energy and other fields, who delivered special reports on themes including group operation control of heavy-haul trains, new power systems, optimal control theories and algorithms, as well as the setup of driving facilities and equipment for high-speed railway EMU crews. The event aimed to promote industry-university-research exchanges and broaden the academic horizons of teachers and students.

The activity was presided over by ‌Huang De-qing‌, Internationalization Director of the School of Electrical Engineering. ‌Wang Bin‌, Party Secretary of the School of Electrical Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University, attended the event and delivered a speech. ‌Yan Pu-long‌, Deputy Party Secretary and Vice Dean of the school, ‌Liao Kai‌, Vice Dean, ‌Yang Ping‌, Discipline and Talent Director, as well as more than 100 teacher and student representatives from the school participated in the activity.

This lecture invited four industry experts to deliver special reports, namely ‌Jiang Ming‌, Deputy Chief Engineer of Beijing National Railway Research & Design Institute of Signalling & Communication Group Co., Ltd., ‌Zheng Yong-kang‌, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Innovation Center of Datang Hydropower Research Institute Co., Ltd., ‌Hu Yun-qing‌, Vice General Manager of Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co., Ltd., and ‌Wang Li-jun‌, Chief Engineer of the Locomotive & Vehicle Institute of China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co., Ltd.

With the theme of Research and Application of Heavy-Haul Train Group Operation Control System Technology , Jiang Ming introduced relevant technologies and applications of the heavy-haul train group operation control system, focusing on sharing technologies such as dynamic marshalling and dynamic unmarshalling. This provided teachers and students with a new perspective for understanding the development of heavy-haul railway transportation organization and operation control technologies.

Zheng Yong-kang delivered a report titled “From Installation Dominance to Electricity Generation Dominance — Current Status, Key Technical Challenges and Prospects of New Energy Development”. Against the backdrop of China's ‌dual-carbon goals‌ and the construction of the new-type power system, he analyzed the critical technical challenges faced by new energy development, conducted in-depth explanations on technical directions such as ‌grid-connection control‌ and ‌grid-forming control‌, and prospected the development trend of power system control technologies under the background of high-proportion new energy integration.

Hu Yun-qing delivered a report titled “Theories, Algorithms and Applications of Optimal Control”. He introduced the relevant theories and algorithms of optimal control, and focused on sharing the research ideas and applications of the ‌smoothing penalty function method‌. This provides useful references for teachers and students to further understand the solution methods of optimal control problems and their engineering applications.

Wang Li-jun delivered a report titled “Technical Exchange on the Setup Standards for Driving Crew Facilities and Equipment of High-speed Railway EMUs”. He conducted in-depth exchanges around the setup standards for driving crew facilities and equipment of high-speed railway EMUs, shared relevant ‌railway technical specifications‌ and engineering practical experience in combination with the actual demands of the industry, and helped teachers and students deepen their understanding of high-speed railway equipment design and standardization work.