The Tang Chao Innovation Studio of Beijing Urban Construction Survey and Design Institute was established in 2019 and currently has 14 members. The studio has always focused on the field of safety monitoring of urban rail transit infrastructure, with the goal of "full measurement, accurate measurement, and fast measurement," overcoming multiple "bottleneck" technical problems and becoming a benchmark for scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation in the industry.

    The Tang Chao Innovation Studio anchored itself to the pain points of safety monitoring during metro operation and launched research on the application of mobile 3D laser scanning technology in metro safety measurement. At that time, this field in China was still in the exploratory stage, and the team started from scratch, tackling hard nuts such as point cloud quality enhancement algorithms and intelligent identification of structural surface changes. After multiple rounds of technical improvement and expert review, they ultimately developed a complete set of high-precision measurement equipment, achieving deformation detection accuracy at the millimeter level and improving office efficiency by 5-10 times, with the overall project technology reaching the international advanced level.The results have been applied in more than 50% of metro tunnel structure inspections nationwide, ensuring the operational safety of more than 70% of the Beijing metro network and promoting the digital transformation and intelligent development of metro tunnel structure measurement and inspection.

Rail transit intelligent inspection robot

    On the road of innovation, leader Tang Chao has delivered a remarkable answer sheet. In the digital application of tunnel structure inspection and equipment research and development, Tang Chao has deeply integrated scientific research with industry, and has successively presided over and participated in more than 30 horizontal and vertical research projects, including those of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Science and Technology Program, and the Beijing Association for Science and Technology Golden Bridge Seed Fund. Focusing on research into the digital transformation and intelligent development of metro tunnel structure measurement and inspection, he has published more than 40 articles, including 10 indexed by SCI/EI, and authored 1 monograph. He has won 5 science and technology awards from first-level academic societies/associations; obtained 8 authorized patents and filed 10 patent applications; and obtained 25 authorized software copyrights. He was selected for the 2023 Mao Yisheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award, the 2024 Chaoyang District "Phoenix Plan" leading talent, and the 2022Chinese Society for Surveying and MappingYoung Surveying and Mapping Innovation Science and Technology Talent. The studio has successively won honors such as the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award Second Prize, the Guangdong Provincial Technological Invention Award First Prize, and the Ministry of Natural Resources Science and Technology Progress Award Second Prize.

    While promoting technological upgrading in the industry, Tang Chao has always attached importance to building a talent pipeline and, through the "famous teacher mentoring apprentice" model, has cultivated a new generation of innovative forces for the industry. Among them, young employees Ren Chuanbin and Xu Pengyu, under Tang Chao's careful guidance, quickly grew into technical backbones and were selected for the "famous teacher mentoring apprentice" list. Under this model, Ren Chuanbin and Xu Pengyu successively obtained senior engineer titles and won multiple provincial and ministerial-level awards, including the Natural Resources Science and Technology Award, the Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Award, and the Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Award, demonstrating the practical value of "famous teacher mentoring apprentice" and interpreting with practical actions the profound meaning of technical inheritance and innovation.