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From (5), we can define the transfer function between the
circuits in view of the power supply voltage of the primary
circuit and the output induced current of the secondary circuit.
At the perfect resonant conditions of two circuits, the tuning
of the capacitances in primary and secondary circuits should
meet the following (6) and (7), as shown in Fig. 1 (b), at the
resonance frequency of 0 .
(a) Actual equivalent circuit
1 (6)
+ j 0 L1 = 0
j 0 C 1
1 (7)
+ j 0 L 2 = 0
j 0 C 2
Per two equations, we can properly tune the circuits for the
(b) Equivalent circuit at a perfect resonance stronger magnetic coupling between two circuits. From Fig. 1
Fig. 1. The equivalent circuit of a loosely coupled wireless power transfer
(b), we can write the following relationship at the resonant
system operating frequency 0 .
With introducing the degree of the coupling between two The delivered power to the secondary circuit, P2 , and,
coils with the coupling coefficient, k , the mutual inductance, hence, the transfer efficiency, , at the resonance frequency,
M , can be expressed as follows.
0 , can be obtained as follows in (13).
M = k L1 L2 (2)
02 M 2 RT I 2
P2 = Re {V 2 I 2* } = (12)
Z 2 Z 2*
Thus, the circuits in Fig. 1 (a) can be redrawn as in (b)
P2 Re {V2 I 2 }
*
utilizing the mutual inductance, M . 02 M 2 RT (13)
= = =
P1 Re {V1 I1* } Re {Z 1 Z 2 Z 2* + 02 M 2 Z 2* }
1 (3)
V1 = + j L1 + R1 I1 j MI 2
j C1 Here * means the complex conjugate. By simplifying the
1 Eq. (13), the transfer efficiency can be written as following
V2 = j MI1 j L2 + + RT I 2 (4)
(14).
j C 2
02 M 2 1 (14)
Here, RT ( = R2 + Rl ) is the total resistance of the secondary = =
R1 RT + 02 M 2 1 + R1 RT
circuit. From (3) and (4), we can rearrange for the current in 02 M 2
the second circuit.
In terms of Q-factors of primary and secondary circuits, the
efficiency can be derived as follows:
j M (5)
I2 = V1
1 1 k 2 iQ1 iQ 2
R1 +
j C1
+ j L1 RT +
j C 2
+ j L 2 + 2 M 2 = (15)
1 + k 2 iQ1 iQ 2
Here, and are defined as follows:
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0 L1 field in the vicinity area of power trransfer.
Q1 =
R1 A schematic circuit diagram forr the OLEV system, which
L includes the power supply infraastructure and the power
Q2 = 0 2 . receiver sub-system in a vehicle are shown in Fig. 3. Starting
RT
from the main power source, regiional standard industrial 3
phase AC electricity with either 440 0V or 380V, the high power
Thus, in order to maximize the transmissionn efficiency from will go through the power inverteer, of which functions are
(14), both circuits at resonance frequency shhould follow this AC-DC Converter, PWM (Pulse Width W Modulation), primary
basic principle [25]. circuit tuning module for the operatting frequency, and a finite
number of segment installed under the t road surface. The PWM
R1 RT switching module will convert thee DC electricity to 20 kHz
<< 1 (15)
AC, where the actual test bed is usiing 20 kHz as an operating
02 M 2
frequency of the primary circuiit and the receiver coils
k 2 i Q1 i Q 2 >> 1 (16) inductances and capacitancess, as denoted with
, , , , , , , can be useed as a resonant frequency
From (15), it should be noted that the hhigher operating tuning purpose. The received magn netic field will be converted
frequency and the stronger magnetic couplingg in two resonant to DC electricity going through the rectifier and regulator to
circuits will bring higher power transfer efficciency. From the feed into directly to the drive moto or or energy storage device
(2), for the higher value of the mutual inducctance, M , it is on-board. The power inverter would d also include the switching
required to have higher coupling coefficient k , where one of management of each segment, wh hile maintaining the output
the significant factor would be the magnetic field interaction current at constant 200A upon the load requirement of those
between two resonant coils. In other wordss, from (16), the segments, which can be extended to o six, as demonstrated in the
efficiency will be greater for the higher Q Q-factors of both test bed.
circuits and with higher coupling factor. In this experimental test bed, thee vehicle can have 100 kW
of power receiving capacity with fiive of each pick up module
of 20 kW each, as demonstrated in n the private campus road.
B. OLEV System Architecture The mutual inductance can hardly be b defined explicitly due to
KAISTs OLEV system, a trademark registered, is a the complicate nature of 3-dim mensional magnetic field,
dynamic wireless charging system, of which m main sub-systems enclosing geometry and 20 kHz material properties of the
are comprised of the power supply system as a part of road and boundary including the leakage mag gnetic field, which can be a
the electric vehicle which has equipped with thhe power pick-up further study. However, the dem monstrated OLEV system
modules. The power supply track embedded inn the road can be achieved more than 80% of transffer efficiency with 20 kHz
considered as the primary circuit of the ressonant magnetic operating and resonant frequency by b optimizing the magnetic
coupling, and the power pick-up device can bbe considered as field and resonant tuning process, which is described in the
the secondary resonant circuit. The schematic architecture of following section.
an OLEV system is shown in Fig. 2.The pow wer line segment
Optimizing Magnetic Flux Field
can be considered as the main inductance off the track of the
primary circuit. The design variables can include geometric layout of coils
and ferrite shapes in transverse and longitudinal direction of
vehicle-based coordinate and th he tuning parameters of
inductance, capacitance of both cirrcuits including the air-gap
(or ground height of a vehicle betweeen the road surface and the
bottom of pick-up modules) distan nce. The tuning parameters
can roughly be explained with a set of equivalent circuit
concepts [14, 25-27], Eq. (6), (7) can
c be the basic framework
of the tuning process of two resonant
r circuits. For the
maximized power transfer efficiency and minimized the
leakage field flux of the magneticc field, the magnetic field
shapes should be optimized in three dimensional spatial
coordinates. The schematized magnetic field shapes with the
fundamental concept of the shaped magnetic
m field in resonance
Fig. 2. Overall OLEV system architecture: vehiccle and power supply (SMFIR) is shown in Fig. 4.
t The 2-D simulation model used includes the power supply
In the OLEV system, the fundamental objeective is to form system with power cables in longiitudinal direction of a bus,
an optimized and efficient AC magnetic fieldd shape between the pick-up module attached to the under-body, and the
the supply and receiver electric circuits, with applying metallic body with specific arrangemments of ferrite cores under
resonant electricity, and to minimize the leeakage magnetic the power cable and within the pow wer pick-up module. As one
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power cable goes in the vehicle forward moviing direction and mode of wireless power transfer meechanism.
the other cable is in reverse direction, thee magnetic field
generated shows a duel elliptic shape, whichh we call a dual
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example of a powered track layout is shown, which consist of takes only 17 % of one round trip. This system has three
six segments. Between each segment, there can be enough powered tracks and two separate stationary charging stations on
distances between the segments depending on the application the road. Three power inverters are installed at each powered
conditions, such as bridges or pedestrian crossing etc. track, with an additional power inverter for two stationary
charging stations. The electricity collected during the vehicle
operation on 170 m powered track has been enough to
C. Implementation Results Summary
compensate the battery state of charge (SOC) level which has
In Seoul Grand Park, the first prototype of dynamic wireless been consumed during one round trip due to the drive motor
charging system in public demonstration purpose has been and auxiliary power requirement [3]. In other words, it is
installed. Here the first segment has 2.5 m and the other five necessary to determine the total powered road length
segments have 25 m each, while the distance between the considering the energy consumption of the vehicle on the
segments has been varied from 3 m to 100 m range. [3] In the application field while minimizing the installation cost.
park, one round trip in a closed circuit of a people mover tram is
2.2 km, and the installed powered track is about 170 m, which
Fig. 5. A schematic diagram of cross-sectional view of magnetic flux field with SMFIR
In the Fig. 5, a set of experimental test data for battery state occupational and general public to time varying electric and
of charge level SOC, instantaneous battery magnetic fields in unperturbed values are defined, as shown in
charging/discharging power, vehicle speed and the regulators Fig. 6. The suggested reference value at 20 kHz for the general
instantaneous output of wirelessly transferred power are shown public from is 27.0 T, e.g. 270 mG in the frequency region of
during one round trip of the closed route in the park. From the 3 kHz to 10 MHz, while the reference value for the
measured vehicle operational speed profile, it is possible to see occupational exposure is 100 T, which is 1000 mG in the same
the stationary charging when the vehicle speed is zero, and the frequency range. Though the method on the spatial averaging
dynamic charging while the vehicle speed is above zero, when of external electric and magnetic fields and on the
the vehicle is in starting range with lower speed. During one non-sinusoidal exposure are defined in [28], it still requires an
round of trip, it is observed that the battery SOC has been additional technical standards to apply this general guideline on
recovered to the level before the trip due to the wireless the measurement location and procedures on specific radiation
delivered energy have the same amount of the consumed characteristics of certain object, especially for the new
energy. technology such as OLEV or magnetic levitation vehicle etc.
For the OLEV application, weve suggested to measure 30
cm away from the vehicle outer body line, and take the average
D. EMF Shielding
of three measured points 0.5 m, 1.0 m, and 1.5 m in height off
According to the International Commission for the ground surface at 20 kHz, while the wireless power transfer
Non-Ionization Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) [28], the is in action on the stationary vehicle. The measured value met
reference values of EMF level on human exposure for the reference values suggested by ICNIRP in any operation
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