{"title":"Optimum design of coils in a dynamic wireless electric vehicle charger with misalignment compensation capability","authors":"A. Poorfakhraei, Ghazal Movaghar, F. Tahami","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910362","url":null,"abstract":"Electric vehicles have been proposed as a proper replacement for fossil fuel-powered vehicles; however, due to the limited power density of electric vehicles batteries, these cars have been facing formidable challenges, such as limited traversed distance. In recent years, dynamic wireless chargers are introduced as an adequate way of addressing this problem in the hope that dealing with this issue can lead to an increase in the popularity of electric vehicles. In this paper, a design procedure for transmitter coil of a dynamic wireless electric vehicles charger is proposed. The procedure includes selecting the best possible shape and calculating optimum size of coils for proper operation of system even in a misaligned situation. Designed transmitter coil satisfies efficiency and output power requirements in pre-determined misalignment range. The procedure is supported by simulation results.","PeriodicalId":414828,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":" 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132158289","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 high step up flying capacitor inverter with the voltage balancing control method","authors":"Amin Ashraf Gandomi, S. Saeidabadi, S. Hosseini","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910390","url":null,"abstract":"A novel flying capacitor inverter has been proposed that utilizes the transformer in the basic unit. In order to generate all the voltage levels (even and odd) at the output, the magnitude of the capacitor's voltage is controlled. Also a new control strategy to generate maximum output voltage levels is proposed. The proposed control strategy is capable of regulating the voltage of the flying capacitor in different levels enabling tunable RMS values of the output voltage levels. In addition, a loss analysis has been performed to assess the sources of losses stemming from different components of the inverter (i.e. power switches, transformer and flying capacitor). Finally, numerical simulation has been performed to model the performance of the proposed topology and corresponding control strategy under different conditions and the results of numerical simulation confirms the stable performance of the proposed inverter.","PeriodicalId":414828,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134313838","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":"An efficient topology for multilevel inverters: Design specifications and modulation technique","authors":"R. Choupan, D. Nazarpour, S. Golshannavaz","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910395","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript introduces an efficient and generalized basic topology adopted for multilevel inverters. It is shown that the proposed structure is in line with significant savings in part counts and control devices. According to the basic topology, a new structure for sub-multilevel inverter is suggested. In continue, cascaded multilevel inverter is realized based on the series connection of n sub-multilevel inverters. By calculating the blocking voltage across the switches, the modulation technique is described for the proposed structure. A comprehensive analysis is founded to compare the proposed cascaded structure with the conventional CHB topology and the recently archived structures. The working conditions and performance of the proposed structure is verified through the simulation studies conducted in MATLAB/Simulink platform. Results are discussed in depth.","PeriodicalId":414828,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114721472","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":"An adaptive algorithm for PMBL motor design","authors":"O. Safdarzadeh, M. Mahdavyfakhr, E. Afjei","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910397","url":null,"abstract":"Permanent magnet brushless DC (PMBL) motors are utilized in various applications. Design of PMBL motors mostly depends on experimental knowledge. In this paper an adaptive algorithm is proposed for PMBL motor design. Design equations are derived from basic governing equations which may be applied to a variety of PMBL motors. Based on the equations, an innovative design flowchart is developed. Using the flowchart, a PMBL motor is designed as a case study. The physical parameters of the algorithm results are used to make a solid model analyzed by Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The model dimensions obtained from the algorithm are fine-tuned utilizing the FEA results. The FEA performance results, verifying the proposed algorithm, satisfy the design requirements. A fabricated motor having the same physical properties is tested and the performance parameters are measured and compared with the algorithm results and the FEA results.","PeriodicalId":414828,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130339312","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}