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Lookup NU author(s): Binh VuORCiD, Nasiru Kadandani, Dr Mohamed Dahidah, Professor Volker Pickert
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Inductive power transfer (IPT) for Electric Vehicles (EVs) is an emerging technology that can transfer power wirelessly over certain distances, thus offering some remarkable characteristics in terms of flexibility, position and movability. The output power of an IPT system depends on the coupling factor of the magnetic couplers which can deviates from the nominal operating conditions due to occurrence of misalignment. Nevertheless, misalignment of the magnetic couplers in inductive charging is inevitable, and it usually results in the variation of the mutual inductance and output power of the system with corresponding decrease in the system overall efficiency. So far, the literature has reported various techniques for achieving designs with higher misalignment tolerance. The reported techniques can be mainly classified into three categories, as viewed from the following aspects: magnetic couplers layouts, compensation networks and control strategy. Each of these techniques has its pros and cons in terms of implementation cost, system layout, efficiency, power density and reliability depending on the application. With the increased investigation of more applications of IPT, new modified techniques of improving the misalignment tolerance in the IPT system are continuously being proposed based on permutations and combinations of the existing ones; thus causing some confusion and difficulties for researchers and system vendors to follow. This paper, therefore, aims to provide a comprehensive review of the existing methods for IPT systems that address the misalignment issue in EVs wireless charging. A review of the IPT system is presented and an investigation of the numerous factors affecting the output power and performances of the system when the coils are not aligned. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of each technique on the IPT system’s performance are analyzed in detail.
Author(s): Vu VB, Ramezani A, Triviño A, González JM, Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Pickert V, Narimani M, Aguado J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
Year: 2023
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Pages: 1857-1887
Print publication date: 01/03/2023
Online publication date: 06/04/2022
Acceptance date: 30/03/2022
Date deposited: 31/03/2022
ISSN (electronic): 2332-7782
Publisher: IEEE
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2022.3165465
DOI: 10.1109/TTE.2022.3165465
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