Passivity-Based PI Control for Receiver Side of Dynamic Wireless Charging System in Electric Vehicles

Abstract

The dynamic wireless charging for electric vehicles (EVs) is considered an efficient and practical choice to extend the driving range and reduce battery pack size. However, the coupling coefficient between transmitter coils and receiver coil varies rapidly on a large scale during the EVs moving, so it deteriorates the charging performance of dynamic wireless power transfer in EVs, such as the discontinuous charging for the lithium-ion batteries in EVs. Moreover, the charging power and efficiency of the system can also be affected. To solve these issues, a dc–dc converter is added to cascade on the receiver side to improve the output power and efficiency of the system. Furthermore, the passivity-based proportional-integral control is designed for the dc–dc on the receiver side of dynamic wireless charging system to improve the performance against the rapidly changing coupling coefficient. Finally, compared with the conventional proportional-integral-derivative controller, simulation and experimental results are given to show the performance and robustness of dynamic wireless charging system by the proposed method.