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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
Volume 65, Issue 11, Pages 4294-4306Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2696948
Keywords
Convex optimization; multiple transmitters; power transfer efficiency (PTE); semidefinite programming; semi-definite relaxation (SDR); wireless power transfer (WPT)
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through a Discovery Grant
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An optimization procedure for multitransmitter multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless power transfer (WPT) systems based on tight semidefinite relaxation (SDR) is presented. This method ensures physical realizability of MISO WPT systems designed via convex optimization-a robust, semi-analytical, and intuitive route to optimizing such systems. To that end, the nonconvex constraints requiring that power is fed into rather than drawn from the system via all transmitter ports are incorporated in a convex SDR, which is efficiently and reliably solvable by dedicated algorithms. A test of the solution then confirms that this modified problem is equivalent (tight relaxation) to the original (nonconvex) one and that the true global optimum has been found. This is a clear advantage over global optimization methods (e.g., genetic algorithms), where convergence to the true global optimum cannot be ensured or tested. Discussions of numerical results yielded by both the closed-form expressions and the refined technique illustrate the importance and practicability of the new method. It is shown that this technique offers a rigorous optimization framework for a broad range of current and emerging WPT applications.
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