Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
Volume 35, Issue 8, Pages 7873-7883Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2020.2965476
Keywords
Autonomous vehicles; electric vehicles (EVs); inductive charging; wireless power transmission
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Wireless power transfer (WPT) is an enabling technology for electric vehicles (EV), as it eliminates driver intervention during charging. Major challenges to the adoption ofWPT systems include coil misalignment and large air-gap WPT, both of which degrade the transfer efficiency. To address these issues, this article presents a compact WPT charger for the rear of an EV, capable of correcting lateral misalignment.x using two integrated electromagnetic coils. The air-gap.y is reduced due to the rear placement of the charging pads. The variation in.y, however, increases due to vehicle parking accuracy, which impacts the operation of the electromagnetic coils. This article proposes a closed-loop threestage position-correcting control algorithm capable of detecting the impedance and resonant frequency of the system, which, in conjunction with the electromagnetic coils, results in improved vehicle alignment. The experimental prototype achieves a peak dc-dc efficiency of 90.1% at 5 kW WPT. With.y = 50 mm, the electromagnetic coils laterally align the pads within 1.75 s and correct.x as large as 240 mm. The position-correcting control was successfully demonstrated in four parking scenarios with the charging pads being corrected to within a 10-mm radius of perfect alignment.
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