- Title
- A new magnetic coupler with high rotational misalignment tolerance for unmanned aerial vehicles wireless charging
- Creator
- Li, Yong; Sun, Wenjun; Liu, Junjiang; Liu, Yuhang; Yang, Xiao; Li, Yanling; Hu, Jiefeng; He, Zhengyou
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189048
- Identifier
- vital:17376
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2022.3184335
- Identifier
- ISSN:0885-8993 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- In this letter, a novel magnetic coupler with high rotational misalignment tolerance is proposed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wireless charging. The transmitting coil consists of an inner coil and an outer circular coil connected in series, which generates a horizontal magnetic field from the center to all periphery directions within the charging range. Then, to receive the flux effectively and to adapt to UAV's structure, a vertical square air-core coil is designed and attached to the landing gear. The proposed magnetic coupler can reduce significantly the magnetic fluxes penetrating through the body of the UAV, therefore mitigating electromagnetic interference with onboard devices. Simulation based on ANSYS Maxwell and experiments based on a laboratory prototype are carried out to validate the proposal. The results show that, the proposed magnetic coupler can transmit power in all 360° of rotational misalignments, and the output voltage of the wireless charging system fluctuates only 2% around the 48 V reference. © 1986-2012 IEEE.
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Relation
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Vol. 37, no. 11 (2022), p. 12986-12991
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 IEEE
- Subject
- 4008 Electrical engineering; 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware; Magenetic coupler; Rotational misalignment; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); Wireless charging
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was supported in part by Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST, in part by the Star of Science and Technology in Southwest Jiaotong University under Grant 2682021CG018, in part by the Young Eagle Program in Southwest Jiaotong University, and in part by the Chengdu Guojia Electrical Engineering Company Ltd., under Grant NEEC-2022-B06.
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