2nd URSI AT-RASC, Gran Canaria, 28 May - 1 June 2018
Optimal Terminating Impadances for Maximizing the Gains of a Four-coil WPT Link
Franco Mastri(1), Mauro Mongiardo(2), Giuseppina Monti(3), Luciano Tarricone(3), Laura Corchia(3) and Alessandra Costanzo*(1) (1) Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] (2) Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] (3) Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Abstract 2 Analyzed problem
The problem analyzed in this paper is schematized in Fig. 1. In this paper, a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) link A WPT link consisting of four resonators is considered; consisting of four magnetically coupled resonators (a it is assumed that each resonator consists of a distributed transmitting and a receiving resonator coupled through two inductor L loaded by an appropriate compensating relay elements) is analyzed. Standard gain definitions i capacitor C realizing the resonance condition at the angular are used for describing the performance of the link and i resonant frequency ω . The resistors R model the the analytical expressions of the terminating impedances 0 i resonator losses. The parameters summarized in Table 1 providing the optimal operating conditions are derived. are used for the analysis and the power gains (Power Gain, GP, Available Gain, GA, and Transducer Gain, GT ) as defined in the context of active two–port network are 1 Introduction adopted for describing the performance of the link. The definitions and the expressions in terms of impedance matrix representation of the network are summarized in Resonant inductive Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is an Table 2. attractive technology enabling the wireless recharge of electronic systems [1–6]. The basic configuration uses just two magnetically coupled 2.1 Gains maximization for a four–resonator resonant loops [7, 8]: a transmitting (TX) and a receiving WPT link: analytical data (RX) resonator. However, improved performance can be obtained by using additional resonators (relay resonators) By specializing the expressions reported in the second not directly connected to the source and the load [9–16]. In column of Table 1 for a four–coil WPT link, the following this regard, two possible schemes of interest are the one results can be obtained for the gains: using three resonators (i.e., a TX, an RX and one relay resonators) [13, 14] and the one using four resonators (i.e., a TX, an RX and two relay resonators) [15]. 2 2 2 χ14χ43χ32T Q2T GP = , (1) 2 1 2 1 2 2 Q In particular, in [17] the scheme with a single relay χ14 + χ32T + + χ43 χ32T + ρ L element has been solved referring to the problem of 2 2 2 maximizing the gains of the link. It is demonstrated Q1T χ1T4χ43χ32 GA = 2 2 2 2 , (2) that, for a given link, the three power gains (i.e., the QG χ1T4 + 1 χ32 + 1 + χ43 χ1T4 + ρ power gain, the available gain and the transducer gain) can be simultaneously maximized by setting the terminating Q 4χ2 χ2 χ2 Q G 1T 1T4 43 32T 2T . impedances equal to the image resistances of the link T = 2 (3) QG χ2 + 1 χ2 + 1 + χ2 QL (i.e., the conjugate image impedances of the two–port 1T4 32T 43 network which for a three-resonator WPT link are purely resistive). In the present paper, the problem of finding the According to the analysis reported in [18], for a generic optimal terminating impedances of a four–resonator WPT two–port network the terminating impedances which allow link is analyzed. It is shown that, as in the case of a to simultaneously maximize the three power gains are the three–resonator scheme, the power gains are maximized conjugate image impedances of the network, Zci (i = 1,2), when the link is terminated on its image resistances. which, in general, are complex quantities. For the analyzed M14 M43 M32
R L L L L G I1 1 4 3 2 I2 + +
VG − + V1 C1 C4 I4 I3 C3 C2 V2 RL − −
R1 R4 R3 R2
Figure 1. Equivalent representation of a WPT link using two relay elements.
Table 1. Definitions.
Li Mi j ω0Li ω0L1 ω0L2 X0 = ω0L2 ni j = ki j = Qi = QG = QL = L j LiL j Ri RG RL
Q1QG qQ2QL p 2 Q1T = Q2T = χi j = QiQ jki j ρ = Q4Q3k + 1 χ1T4 = √Q1T Q4k14 χ32T = √Q3Q2T k32 Q1+QG Q2+QL 43 p Table 2. Gains definitions and expressions.
Definition Expression 1.0 2 PL RL z21 GP Pin Rin z22+ZL 0.9 0.89 2 PA RG z21 GA 0.8 PAG Rout z11+ZG 2 PL 4 z21 RGRL 0.7 GT P | | 2 14.45 AG (z +Z )(z +ZL) z z Gain | 11 G 22 − 12 21| 0.6 G T G P problem, the following expressions can be derived for the 0.5 G conjugate image impedances: A 0.4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 2 2 2 2 2 X0n χ + 1 χ + 1 + χ χ + ρ Z = 12 14 32 43 14 , (4) R ( Ω) c1 Q 2 L 1 s ρ χ32+ ρ (a) X χ2 + 1 χ2 + 1 + χ2 χ2 + ρ Z = 0 14 32 43 32 . (5) c1 Q 2 1.0 2 s ρ χ14+ ρ