Analysis and Transmitter Currents Decomposition Based Control for Multiple Overlapped Transmitters Based WPT Systems Considering Cross Couplings

Multiple transmitters powering a single receiver simultaneously is a good alternative to upgrade the power capacity of the wireless power transfer (WPT) system by using multiple modular inverters manufactured in a larger quantities, since the demand for high power applications is on the rise. A multiple overlapped transmitters based WPT system is presented in this paper. In order to alleviate the effects of the cross couplings between the transmitters, additional capacitors are adopted in the transmitters and the configuration of additional capacitors is provided. Virtual active and reactive powers are defined to decompose the transmitter current into active and reactive components. A transmitter current control scheme based on the proposed current decomposition method consisting of one reactive current control loop and one active current control loop is also presented in this paper. Finally, a low-scale experimental setup using two overlapped transmitters WPT system is provided to verify the proposed approach. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method could improve the stability of output voltage control and achieve minimal current difference amongst transmitters. Besides, the overall system efficiency is improved to 90.34% with the proposed control method at 1.45 kW output power, which demonstrates that the proposed method is a potential solution for high power applications.