Historical Evolution: The institute traces its roots back to China’s first Industrial Automation and Instrumentation Program, established in 1959. It was formally founded as the Institute of Automatic Detection and Process Control Systems in 2004, and renamed the Institute of Radiation Thermometry and Thermophysical Property Testing in 2022. Affiliated to Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), it falls under the umbrella of Instrumentation Science and Technology—a national key discipline of the university.
Faculty Team: The institute currently has 10 staff members, including 3 professors (all doctoral supervisors), 1 researcher, 4 associate professors, and 2 lecturers.
Research Directions: The institute is mainly engaged in the measurement and control of parameters such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, and liquid level. With over 60 years of development, it has formed distinctive research focuses including blackbody cavity theory, multispectral radiation thermometry, thermophysical property testing, non-destructive testing, and intelligent instruments and meters. Among these, its multispectral radiation thermometry technology has long maintained an internationally advanced and domestically leading position, and has been guiding the development direction of this field.
Institute Overview: The institute has successively undertaken more than 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as dozens of projects sponsored by national ministries/commissions and industry partners. It has successfully solved a series of challenging technical problems, such as plume temperature measurement of solid rocket motors, transient temperature field measurement of propellants and explosives, high-speed temperature measurement of high-speed railway track slabs in frigid regions, and atmospheric transmittance measurement over the sea under complex environments.
The institute has published more than 300 research papers, including over 150 SCI-indexed ones, and won more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level awards. Its research outcomes mainly serve the aerospace, aviation, military, national defense, and energy sectors. Long-term cooperative relationships have been established with institutions such as the National Institute of Metrology of Italy and the University of Rome, Italy.
Capabilities and Undertakable Tasks:
Temperature measurement methods and equipment for various targets, including special objects (e.g., explosive, transient, micro-scale, and plasma targets) and extreme conditions;
Thermophysical property testing methods and equipment for materials;
Gas composition measurement systems based on tunable laser spectroscopy;
Environmental thermal simulation and experimental methods and systems;
Spectral measurement and spectral analysis;
Infrared imaging systems and infrared non-destructive testing.
Director: Professor/Xiaogang Sun (Doctoral Supervisor)
