System Design of Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer for Automated Highways

Andrew Foote, Omer C. Onar, Suman Debnath, Jason Pries, Veda Prakash Galigekere, Burak Ozpineci

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Abstract

Dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) has been proposed as a solution to power electric vehicles (EVs)on future electrified highways. However, there has been little consideration of how the coordination of electric connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) could impact DWPT system designs in future scenarios. In this paper, a DWPT system design is optimized for a future highway where CAVs travel in coordinated groups, with each CAV in the group powered by the same DWPT section. As the distribution of smaller light-duty vehicles (LDVs) and larger heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) in each group is varied, the DWPT system power level, transmitter length, and the equivalent receiver loads are adjusted to minimize the infrastructure requirements and energy losses of the DWPT system. The outputs from this analysis are used to determine the optimal groupings of vehicles for a given DWPT system. The analysis suggests that CAV coordination could aid the deployment of DWPT systems and reduce the overall infrastructure and energy losses of DWPT systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationITEC 2019 - 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538693100
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Event2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2019 - Novi, United States
Duration: Jun 19 2019Jun 21 2019

Publication series

NameITEC 2019 - 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNovi
Period06/19/1906/21/19

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory operated by the UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy

    Keywords

    • Autonomous vehicles
    • automated highways
    • wireless power transmission

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