Electric vehicles

Overview
The Optimal System Design of the Online Electric Vehicle Utilizing
Name of Article Wireless Power Transmission Technology

Time Sep-2013

Resource IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

Author Young Dae Ko and Young Jae Jang, Member, IEEE

Electric vehicle, optimization, particle swarm optimization (PSO),
Index Terms transportation system design, wireless power transmission.
 Overview
 The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) is an
innovative electric transportation system
 Developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology (KAIST)
 The battery in the OLEV can be charged while
the vehicle is in motion
 A potential solution for the next-generation
electric public transportation system
 Problems and solution
Previous automotive makers versions:
+ There are technical and economic limitations
+ Weight and size of the battery
+ Cost of the battery
+ Long battery charging time
+ The limited availability of charging stations
Solution:
 Overcome the limitations of battery-powered electric vehicles
 Battery-powered transportation system that remotely picks up electricity from power transmitters buried
underground
 The system utilizes the wireless charging technology
OLEV SYSTEM
 Consists of vehicles and power transmitters
 Includes the integrated system that consists of a vehicle or a fleet of vehicles together with
the charging units
 The battery in the OLEV can be wirelessly charged from the transmitters using the
noncontact charging mechanism
 Charging while vehicles are in motion
 OLEV SYSTEM
The main tasks:
 How to allocate economically the power transmitters on the road
 How to determine the right battery capacity
Performance:
 60 kW of power may be wirelessly transferred from the power transmitters with 80% efficiency
Operation:
 The wireless power transfer system for the OLEV is com- posed of an inverter, an inductive cable, a pickup device, a
capacitor, a battery, and a motor
 Power from the 60-Hz supply is converted to a frequency of 20 kHz by the inverter
 A current of 200 A flows through the inductive cable.
 The magnetic flux generated from the cable is collected by the pickup device to generate dc power for the vehicle
motor.
The model
Purpose:
 To construct an optimization problem to minimize the total cost of the system.
Objective function:
Model
Constraints:
Structure of the articles
 Section I – Introduction
 Section II – Describes the system modeling issues of the OLEV. The detailed mathematical
model describing the dynamic behavior of the OLEV system.
 Section III – The optimization problem and the solution algorithm using the particle swarm
optimization (PSO)
 Section IV – A case with numerical solutions and system sensitivity issues
 Section V – The summary and further research directions
Attractive points
 Introduce Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) is an innovative
electric transportation system
 Using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) which is
known as A Powerful Technique for Solving Engineering
Problems
 Solve the problem in multiple-sides such as engineering,
environment and economics.