Compact inductive and capacitive combined wireless power transfer system for unmanned aerial vehicle applications

Wenping Chai; Xichen Liu; Shuai Wu; Chunwei Cai

Compact inductive and capacitive combined wireless power transfer system for unmanned aerial vehicle applications

Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 662-671, Apr. 2024

10.1007/s43236-023-00750-9

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Wireless charging

Inductive and capacitive combined wireless power transfer system

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel inductive and capacitive combined wireless power transfer (IC-WPT) system for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. First, a new compact inductive and capacitive combined coupler is presented. The magnetic field coupled power transmission of the compact coupler contains one magnetic transmitting unit, which is composed of two biorthogonal L-type cores and two rectangular coils wound on each of the short edges of the L-type ferrite core in the vertical position, and two air-cored receiving coils embedded in the legs. Meanwhile, the electric field coupled power transmission of the compact coupler consists of four pieces of copper foil, where two are attached on the primary side and two are attached on the secondary sides for wireless energy transmission through capacitive coupling. Second, a simple resonant compensation network is developed for the IC-WPT system. To make the secondary side lightweight, the receiver self-inductance of the inductive power transfer (IPT) coupler and compensating capacitance of the capacitive power transfer (CPT) receiver can be used to compensate each other. A prototype of the proposed UAV IC-WPT system is built and tested. Experimental results show that the wireless power transfer system can deliver 130 W at an efficiency of 81.2%, which means it can be adopted to the autonomous charging of UAVs.

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[IEEE Style]

W. Chai, X. Liu, S. Wu, C. Cai, "Compact inductive and capacitive combined wireless power transfer system for unmanned aerial vehicle applications," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 662-671, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s43236-023-00750-9.

[ACM Style]

Wenping Chai, Xichen Liu, Shuai Wu, and Chunwei Cai. 2024. Compact inductive and capacitive combined wireless power transfer system for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. Journal of Power Electronics, 24, 4, (2024), 662-671. DOI: 10.1007/s43236-023-00750-9.