On the Sizing of the DC-Link Capacitor to Increase the Power Transfer in a Series-Series Inductive Resonant Wireless Charging Station

Andrea Carloni, Federico Baronti, Roberto Di Rienzo, Roberto Roncella and Roberto Saletti
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Andrea Carloni: Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Federico Baronti: Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Roberto Di Rienzo: Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Roberto Roncella: Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Roberto Saletti: Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Wireless inductive-coupled power transfer is a very appealing technique for the battery recharge of autonomous devices like surveillance drones. The charger design mainly focuses on lightness and fast-charging to improve the drone mission times and reduce the no-flight gaps. The charger secondary circuit mounted on the drone generally consists of a full-bridge rectifier and a second-order filter. The filter cut-off frequency is usually chosen to make the rectifier output voltage constant and so that the battery is charged with continuous quantities. Previous works showed that an increase in power transfer is achieved, if compared to the traditional case, when the second-order filter resonant frequency is close to the double of the wireless charger excitation and the filter works in resonance. This work demonstrates that the condition of resonance is necessary but not sufficient to achieve the power increment. The bridge rectifier diodes must work in discontinuous-mode to improve the power transfer. The paper also investigates the dependence of the power transfer increase on the wireless excitation frequency. It is found the minimum frequency value below which the power transfer gain is not possible. This frequency transition point is calculated, and it is shown that the gain in power transfer is obtained for any battery when its equivalent circuit parameters are known. LTSpice simulations demonstrate that the transferred power can be incremented of around 30%, if compared to the case in which the rectifier works in continuous mode. This achievement is obtained by following the design recommendations proposed at the end of the paper, which trade off the gain in power transfer and the amplitude of the oscillating components of the wireless charger output.

Keywords: DC-link capacitor sizing; UAV charging; wireless power transfer; battery fast charging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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