Optimal Coil Design and Control Strategy for a High-power and Medium-frequency Wireless Power Transfer System

Abstract

With the development of technology in modern society, more and more electrical and electronic instruments has been invented and used in factories and our daily life. Power supply is the basic and important need of any electrical and electronic appliance, but energy storage technologies for mobile use is far from satisfactory. For instance, one of the most important performance of Electric Vehicle(EV) is the range ability. Because of the constraints of battery capacity and charging consumes a long period of time, range anxiety is the fatal shortcoming of EV.Wireless power transfer(WPT) technology could alleviate the shortcoming of range anxiety to a large extent. With the WPT system’ spread, the charging process could be happening wherever and whenever the EV is parked.In the research area of WPT system, circuits design, coil design, compensation topology and control methods are the four most important parts. Improving the power transfer capacity(including power capacity and the range of transfer distance), system’s reliability and efficiency of the system are the main purposes of this research. By applying medium-frequency and optimized coil design as well as specially designed control strategy, a medium-frequency high-power WPT system is realized.