Tiefu Zhao, Birger Pahl, Jun Xu, B. Wu, Prasanna Nirantare, Milind Kothekar
{"title":"Optimal operation point tracking control for inductive power transfer system","authors":"Tiefu Zhao, Birger Pahl, Jun Xu, B. Wu, Prasanna Nirantare, Milind Kothekar","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7139134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7139134","url":null,"abstract":"Inductive power transfer (IPT) is emerging as a solution to achieve power transfer without physical contacts for a wide range of applications, such as electric vehicle charging. Improving the efficiency of the IPT systems through power electronics and control has become a focus to make IPT competitive to the existing contact power transfer solutions. This paper reviews and evaluates the state-of-the-art IPT control methods and proposes an optimal operation point tracking control for the IPT system. The proposed method controls the switching frequency, transmitter and receiver PWM duty-cycles to compensate for changes in gap distance, coil misalignment, temperature and component parameter tolerance. The optimal operation points are tracked to improve the overall system efficiency. The proposed method is analyzed by comparing the different operating points at power and efficiency curves of the IPT system. Furthermore, a 4.5 kW IPT prototype is designed and three control strategies are implemented and tested in the IPT prototype. The experimental results verified that the proposed optimal operating point method effectively improves the system efficiency and tolerance to environment variables.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129454394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Kim, Jaehyoung Park, Kibeom Kim, H. Park, Seungyoung Ahn
{"title":"Propulsion and control of implantable micro-robot based on wireless power transfer","authors":"D. Kim, Jaehyoung Park, Kibeom Kim, H. Park, Seungyoung Ahn","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140170","url":null,"abstract":"As implantable micro-robots become a promising solution for medical applications, the interests for micro-robot control are growing. However, most research has been focused on DC magnetic field control. In this paper, we propose a micro-robot powered by wireless power transfer system which generates propulsion force and torque as well as electrical energy to perform complex missions. The concept of propulsion and torque generation is explained and validated by simulation results.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"22 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125841980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hisashi Nishikawa, Yuuma Kitai, Takahiro Furukoshi, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, A. Tanaka, T. Douseki
{"title":"UHF power transmission system for multiple small self-rotating targets and verification with batteryless quadcopter having rotors with embedded rectenna","authors":"Hisashi Nishikawa, Yuuma Kitai, Takahiro Furukoshi, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, A. Tanaka, T. Douseki","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140153","url":null,"abstract":"A method of wirelessly transmitting power to multiple small moving or rotating devices by means of UHF radio energy has been devised. The transmission frequency was set to 430 MHz to keep the antenna small (relative to an antenna for the SHF region) and to enable the use of inexpensive off-the-shelf rectifiers. The system can supply power to multiple targets within the beam angle of the transmitting antenna. A self-rotating quadcopter rotor unit (rotor, antenna, rectifier, filter, two motors) weighing less than 5.5 g was developed. A patch-array-style beam antenna for power transmission with a sufficient gain and radiating over a large enough area for multiple nearby targets was also designed. A quadcopter with four rotor units was tested: It hovered about 10 cm above the transmitting antenna, which was driven by 30 W of RF power at a frequency of 430 MHz. The four rotor units received a maximum power of 6 W, yielding a transfer efficiency of around 20%.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126581632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin H. Waters, Peter Fidelman, Jeffrey D. Raines, Joshua R. Smith
{"title":"Simultaneously tuning and powering multiple wirelessly powered devices","authors":"Benjamin H. Waters, Peter Fidelman, Jeffrey D. Raines, Joshua R. Smith","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140177","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless charging standards for consumer devices include specifications for charging multiple receive devices simultaneously. However if the devices are not all the same size or if they require different amounts of power, these existing standards may be incapable of charging multiple devices efficiently. This paper provides an overview of a complete wireless power transfer system that is capable of automatically tuning, communicating with, and efficiently powering multiple single-cell battery charging receive devices. Frequency tracking, power tracking, and adaptive impedance matching are used to dynamically tune each receiver and the transmitted signal for optimal power delivery to each receiver. Additionally, these same tuning techniques are used to demonstrate time-division multiplexing, where individual receive devices are powered sequentially while all other receive devices are de-tuned and do not consume any power, even in the presence of the transmit coil.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128273265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Clare, Paul Worgan, B. Stark, S. Adami, D. Coyle
{"title":"Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer","authors":"L. Clare, Paul Worgan, B. Stark, S. Adami, D. Coyle","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140171","url":null,"abstract":"Designers of on-body health sensing devices with inductive power transfer (IPT) face a number of trade-offs. Safe exposure limits should be maintained, and protective housing and padding are generally needed; however, these impose compromises on the power-transfer-system design. This paper analyses these trade-offs and proposes a design route to achieving high power transfer in the presence of field restrictions and separations for padding or housing materials. An IPT system using a Class D coil-driver and switched-mode power-conditioning is designed to provide regulated d.c. and energy storage. Compliance with ICNIRP 1998 guidelines is demonstrated, at a power level that is sufficient to power typical on-body medical sensing devices.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133920092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can wireless power transfer benefit from large transmitter arrays?","authors":"Salil Kashyap, E. Bjornson, E. Larsson","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140132","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we illustrate the potential benefits of using large transmitter arrays for wireless power transfer. Specifically, we analyze the probability of outage in energy transfer over fading channels when the base station (BS) with multiple antennas beamforms energy to a wireless sensor node. Our analytical and numerical results show that by using large transmitter arrays, the range of wireless power transfer can be increased while maintaining a target outage probability. We also observe and quantify that by using multi-antenna arrays at the BS, a lower downlink energy is required to get the same outage performance.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"430 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113989122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chieh-Kai Chang, Guilherme Goularte Da Silva, Ashish Kumar, Saad Pervaiz, K. Afridi
{"title":"30 W capacitive wireless power transfer system with 5.8 pF coupling capacitance","authors":"Chieh-Kai Chang, Guilherme Goularte Da Silva, Ashish Kumar, Saad Pervaiz, K. Afridi","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140184","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new capacitive wireless power transfer (WPT) system that achieves effective power transfer even with very low values of coupling capacitance between two metal plates separated by an air-gap. A prototype of the proposed capacitive WPT system has been built and shown to transfer 30 W across two 5-cm by 5-cm metal plates separated by an air-gap of 0.5 cm. The power transfer per unit capacitance of 5.5 W/pF achieved by this system is 20 times greater than the highest value previously reported in literature.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115951702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Takagi, Tatsunori Yui, Masayuki Anada, Takashi Izumi, H. Uno, Hironobu Watanabe, Y. Saito
{"title":"Analysis of electromagnetic field leaked from wireless power transfer system in case-study house","authors":"K. Takagi, Tatsunori Yui, Masayuki Anada, Takashi Izumi, H. Uno, Hironobu Watanabe, Y. Saito","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140125","url":null,"abstract":"The wireless power transfer (WPT) system has been actively developed in recent years. Since the electromagnetic field leaked from the WPT system may cause a false operation of other electronic devices, an analysis of the leaked electromagnetic field is significant issue for its practical realization. This paper presents that the electromagnetic field leaked from the WPT system installed in a case-study house is evaluated in the measurement and simulation. The WPT leakage emulator that can generate the electromagnetic field leaked from the WPT system is used in the measurement. The suitable calculation algorithms with respect to three frequency bands that cover the high-harmonic component of the leaked electromagnetic field are applied for the simulation. Moreover, the significant improvement of the simulation speed is achieved using the supercomputer. The evaluation results of the leaked electromagnetic field distributions at four positions in the case-study house show the validity of the simulation compared with the measurement.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132351102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A particle swarm optimizer for tuning a software-defined, highly configurable wireless power transfer platform","authors":"M. Schuetz, A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, G. Fischer","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7139137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7139137","url":null,"abstract":"An important challenge in wireless power transfer systems based on resonant coupling is the frequency splitting phenomenon, which results in detuning the resonance frequency of the system and consequently in a reduction in the system power transfer efficiency. In this paper, a software-defined, near-field wireless power transfer (WPT) platform is proposed where a particle swarm optimizer (PSO) is used to optimize the power transfer effieciency of the system. A prototype platform operating at 13.56 MHz is designed and fabricated and the capability of the PSO to tune the system to the operating point of maximum efficiency is demonstrated by experiments. It is shown that by controlling the matching network of the transmit and receive chain through the PSO algorithm it is possible to reach the optimum solution within a few iterations. The proposed system can find application in adaptively tuned WPT systems.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130515421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ron-Chi Kuo, P. Riehl, Anand Satyamoorthy, W. Plumb, Philip F. Tustin, Jenshan Lin
{"title":"A 3D resonant wireless charger for a wearable device and a mobile phone","authors":"Ron-Chi Kuo, P. Riehl, Anand Satyamoorthy, W. Plumb, Philip F. Tustin, Jenshan Lin","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2015.7140169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2015.7140169","url":null,"abstract":"A resonant wireless power transfer (WPT) system that allows for free positioning of a wearable device about a 360° axis of rotation and simultaneous charging of a mobile phone is proposed. A 3D transmitter coil structure is introduced to provide a cylindrical charging surface with a uniform magnetic field. A prototype charging system including an amplifier and a rectifier operating at 6.78 MHz is demonstrated. The prototype delivers 1 W to a wearable device and 5 W to a mobile phone simultaneously with a power transfer efficiency of 48%.","PeriodicalId":194427,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133998322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}