Minghui Shen

Design and optimization of hybrid resonant loops for efficient wireless power transfer

Summary Frequency splitting, caused by magnetic overcoupling, is a great challenge in resonant wireless power transfer, which leads to decrease of transfer efficiency. In this paper, to avoid the frequency splitting, a new design of hybrid resonant loops with an inner coil positioned in the transmitter is proposed for efficient power transfer. It is shown to suppress dramatic variation of mutual inductance when the distance between transmitter and receiver decreases. Analytical expressions of the mutual inductance and the transfer efficiency for the proposed resonant wireless power transfer system are calculated. To obtain a relatively uniform mutual inductance with respect to the distance, the proposed resonant loops are optimized. Simulation and experiments are also performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed resonant loops in eliminating the frequency splitting. The transfer efficiency remains higher than 80% when the transfer distance decreases below a critical value where frequency splitting occurs for conventional resonant loops. Furthermore, lateral and angular misalignments between the resonant loops are also considered and investigated. The results indicate that the proposed resonant loops are also applicable in suppressing the frequency splitting even in case of misalignments.

Current predictive control of three-phase voltage source PWM rectifiers under unbalanced grid voltage conditions

To improve the performance of three-phase voltage source pulse-width modulated (PWM) rectifiers (VSR) under unbalanced grid voltage conditions, a fixed-frequency current predictive control (CPC) strategy is presented. Instantaneous power of the three-phase VSR is analysed in a two-phase stationary frame. The calculation method for the reference current is improved to achieve the power stability at the AC side of the rectifier. Based on the current predictive model, the optimal duration of the voltage vectors is computed under the restricted condition of minimizing current error at α- and β-axes in fixed intervals. The control system is free of synchronous rotation coordinate transformation, and avoids positive and negative sequence decomposition, which simplifies the calculation. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed control strategy is able to eliminate the AC current distortion effectively and depress DC link voltage fluctuation under unbalanced grid voltage. Furthermore, the control strategy has faster dynamic response ability, enhancing the control performance of the three-phase VSR system.