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Advances in Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer for Moving Objects
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Advances in Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer for Moving Objects

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 516

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Dr. Deniss Stepins

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Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Riga Technical University, 1658 Riga, Latvia
Interests: power electronics; electromagnetic interference; electromagnetic compatibility; wireless power transfer
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Dr. Janis Zakis

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Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Riga Technical University, 1048 Riga, Latvia
Interests: power electronics; energy conversion; renewable energy systems; distributed power generation; wireless power transfer
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of mobile robotics, electrical vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, dynamic wireless power transfer (WPT) has become a very popular topic in science and technology. Dynamic WPT is a reliable and convenient way to transfer electric power to moving objects (moving consumers of electrical energy), such as flying drones, moving electrical vehicles, moving mobile robots, moving sensors, etc.

This Special Issue is focused mainly on inductive or capacitive dynamic WPT for moving objects. Articles on novel control techniques and power electronic topologies for dynamic WPT are welcome. Review articles on dynamic WPT as well as research articles on ultrasonic-based, laser-based, or microwave-based dynamic WPT systems are also welcome.

Potential research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Improved solutions for dynamic inductive or capacitive WPT to autonomous mobile robots and electrical vehicles;
  • Dynamic WPT techniques for moving sensors;
  • Dynamic WPT for charging drones while they are flying or the dynamic charging of electrical vessels;
  • Control techniques for dynamic WPT systems;
  • Dynamic WPT for mobile robots driving arbitrary trajectory;
  • Ultrasonic-based, laser-based, or microwave-based dynamic WPT systems;
  • Electromagnetic compatibility and safety issues of dynamic WPT systems.  

Dr. Deniss Stepins
Dr. Janis Zakis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • dynamic wireless power transfer
  • wireless charging
  • inductive power transfer
  • electrical vehicles

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Dynamic Resonant-Inductive Wireless Power Transfer System for Automated Guided Vehicles with Reduced Number of Position Sensors
by Deniss Stepins, Aleksandrs Sokolovs and Janis Zakis
Electronics 2024, 13(12), 2377; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/electronics13122377 - 18 Jun 2024
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This paper deals with the position detection of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in dynamic resonant-inductive wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. A position detection is necessary to activate the correct transmitting coil. One of the simplest and most effective approaches for a position detection [...] Read more.
This paper deals with the position detection of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in dynamic resonant-inductive wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. A position detection is necessary to activate the correct transmitting coil. One of the simplest and most effective approaches for a position detection method is to use optical or magnetic position sensors for each coil. However, due to needing a high number of sensors, this technique is relatively expensive. Therefore, an AGV position detection technique based on a reduced number of optical or magnetic sensors (by a factor of two) is proposed. The proposed detection technique was verified experimentally by using a scaled-down prototype of the dynamic WPT system. The proposed approach can be easily implemented by uploading a specific program code to a microcontroller. The microcontroller with the code developed by us was used for processing data from AGV position detection sensors, activating a suitable transmitting coil and controlling an inverter of the dynamic WPT system. As shown by the experiments, due to the proposed approach for the position detection of AGVs and activation of transmitting coils, the number of the position detection sensors is reduced by a factor of two, leading to reductions in the overall cost and level of complexity of the dynamic WPT system without degrading its performance. Full article
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