Wireless Power Transfer (eBook)

Zhen Zhang, Ph.D., is a full professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Tianjin University. He has authored and co-authored numerous internationally referred papers as well as two books published by Wiley-IEEE Press and Cambridge University Press. Prof. Zhang is currently the Chair of IEEE Beijing Section IES Chapter (Tianjin) and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. He is the recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Fellowship, 2020 Outstanding Paper Award for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award. Hongliang Pang received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Tianjin University, China in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. He has published several technical papers and industrial reports in these areas. His current research interests include electric vehicle technologies, wireless power transfer and Power-electronic-based impedance matching.

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: The Era of Wireless Power Transfer

1.1 The father of wireless power transfer - Nikola Tesla

1.2 Wireless power Transfer

1.3 About this book

Chapter 2: Inductive Power Transfer

2.1 Inductive power transfer

2.2 1-to-1 transmission

2.3 1-to-N transmission

2.4 What are differences between 1-to-1 and 1-to-N transmission

Part II: Design

Chapter 3: Design and Optimization for Coupled Coils

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Design considerations

3.3 Optimal design

3.4 Discussion

Chapter 4: Design and Optimization for Power Circuits

4.1 Impedance matching

4.2 DC/AC inverters

Part III: Control

Chapter 5: Control for Single Pickup

5.1 Review of control schemes

5.2 Maximizing efficiency control

Chapter 6: Control for Multiple Pickups

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Transmission strategy for transmitting side

6.3 Impedance matching strategy for multi-frequency transmission

6.4 Others

Chapter 7: Energy Security of Wireless Power Transfer

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Characteristic of frequency

7.3 Energy encryption

7.4 Verifications

7.5 Opportunities

Chapter 8: Omnidirectional Wireless Power Transfer

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Mathematic analysis

8.3 Design of transmitting coils for synthetic magnetic field

8.4 Design and control considerations for pickup coils

8.5 Load detection

8.6 Discussion

Part IV: Application

Chapter 9: WPT for High-Power Application - Electric Vehicles

9.1 Introduction

9.2 EV wireless charging

9.3 Electromagnetic field reduction

9.4 Key technologies

9.5 Summary

Chapter 10: WPT for Low-Power Applications

10.1 Portable consumer electronics

10.2 Implantable medical devices

10.3 Drones

10.4 Underwater wireless charging