The cross-coupling effect between the induction coils of a multiple-receiver wireless power transfer (MRWPT) system severely weakens its overall performance. In this paper, a time-sharing control strategy for MRWPT systems is proposed to reduce the cross-coupling between receiver coils. An active-bridge rectifier is introduced to the receivers to replace the uncontrollable rectifier to achieve synchronization of the time-sharing control. The synchronization signal generated by an active-bridge rectifier can be directly used to realize the synchronization of time-sharing control and hence saved the traditional zero-crossing point detection circuits for time-sharing circuits. Moreover, the proposed time-sharing system has the advantages of both operating under a resistance-matching condition and providing target output voltage for each receiver. Furthermore, a voltage control strategy was developed to provide both high efficiency and a target output voltage for each receiver. Finally, the simulation and experimental results show that the time-sharing MRWPT system reduced the cross-coupling effect between the receiver coils, and the voltage control strategy provided both a high efficiency and a target output voltage for each receiver.
Multiple-receiver wireless power transfer (MRWPT) systems have revolutionary potential for use in applications that require transmitting power to multiple devices simultaneously. In most MRWPT systems, impedance matching is adopted to provide maximum efficiency. However, for most MRWPT systems, achieving target power levels and maximal efficiency is difficult because the target output power and maximum efficiency conditions are mostly not satisfied. This study establishes a target power control (TPC) strategy to balance providing target transfer powers and operating under high efficiency. This study is divided into the following points: First, this study derives the optimal mutual inductance to verify that it’s difficult for two-receiver wireless power transfer (WPT) system to achieve both maximum efficiency and power distribution simultaneously; Second, this study illustrates that for impedance matching method the mutual inductances play a more important role than equivalent impedances in increasing the system efficiency, and hence system should give priority in improving the mutual inductance as large as possible; Third, this study proposes a simplified system model which helps to derive the analytic solutions of equivalent impedances; Fourth, this study developed a 100-kHz two-receiver WPT system and establishes a TPC strategy for enabling the system to achieve target output power levels with high efficiency; At last, the proposed system is proved to achieve an efficiency level of more than 90 % and satisfies the target output power levels requirements.
For high-power single-transmitter single-receiver wireless power transfer (STSRWPT) systems, the coils suffer from high voltage and current stresses. With increased power requirements, the coils become bottlenecks for power flow. To increase the power level, multiple-transmitter multiple-receiver wireless power transfer (MTMRWPT) systems with parallel circuits are developed that reduce the voltage and current stresses on the coils and improve power-handling capability. Firstly, an improved current distribution (ICD) control strategy is developed to simultaneously achieve high transfer efficiency, balanced current distribution and constant output voltage. Secondly, it is further shown that the ICD control strategy has the advantage that the currents at the transmitter coils are balanced and it reduces the control complexity simultaneously. Thirdly, an asynchronous particle swarm optimization (APSO) algorithm is applied to the ICD control strategy to verify the feasibility of the proposed control strategy. Lastly, a two-transmitter two-receiver wireless power transfer (WPT) system based on the ICD control strategy is proved to obtain an efficiency of more than 89.1% and provides the target output voltage 20 V with balanced current distribution.
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