Robust Maximum Efficiency Tracking Control of Wirelessly Powered Directly Supplied Heart Pumps

Amir Hakemi, Dejan Jovanovic, Mahinda Vilathgamuwa () and Geoffrey R. Walker
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Amir Hakemi: School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane City, QLD 4000, Australia
Dejan Jovanovic: School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane City, QLD 4000, Australia
Mahinda Vilathgamuwa: School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane City, QLD 4000, Australia
Geoffrey R. Walker: School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane City, QLD 4000, Australia

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: In recent times, wireless power transfer systems have been identified as a reliable option to supply power to medical implants. Up to now, Wireless Power Transfer Systems (WPTS) have only been used to charge batteries of low-power medical implants. However, for medical implants requiring a relatively higher power, such as a ventricular assist device, which is an implanted blood pump in the patient’s abdominal cavity, an external power supply has been used. When WPTS is used for medical implants, it increases the number of required power converter stages and hardware complexity along with the volume, which tends to reduce the overall efficiency. In addition, the existence of uncertainties in WPTS-based medical implants, such as load and mutual inductance variations, can lead to system instability or poor performance. The focus of this paper is to design a WPTS to supply power to the pump motor directly through its inverter based on the requirements of the motor drive system (MDS) without resorting to an additional DC-to-DC converter stage. To this end, the constraints that the drive system imposes upon WPTS have been identified. In addition, to make a reliable closed-loop operation, a µ -synthesis robust controller is designed to make sure the system maintains its stability and performance with respect to the system’s existing uncertainties. A number of experimental results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the adopted WPTS design approach and the corresponding closed-loop controller for WPTS. Furthermore, the experimental findings for the maximum efficiency tracking (MET) approach (to minimize WPTS coil losses) and constant DC link voltage control approach are shown and compared. According to experimental results and system efficiency analysis, the former appears to perform better. The system dynamic performance analysis, on the other hand, demonstrates the latter’s advantage.

Keywords: wireless power transfer system; medical implants; ventricular assist device; µ -synthesis robust controller; motor drive system (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: 2023
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