Abstract:

This tutorial aims at familiarizing the audience with the fundamentals, design, optimization, and some of the latest developments in key building blocks of the rapidly growing Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) mechanism in a wide range of applications from mm-sized implantable medical devices (IMD) with power consumption in the micro-watt range, to electric vehicles (EV) with power consumption in the tens to hundreds of kilo-watt range. Being developed and presented by two experts, who have decades of experience conducting cutting-edge research in this field, a unique feature of this tutorial is looking at the abovementioned topics from the two opposite ends of the power spectrum, μW to kW, providing the audience with a full coverage of the ins and outs of WPT technology, while emphasizing on both the common themes and the major differences in device and circuit design for various applications at different power levels. The tutorial will cover the entire power flow from the energy source, RF power amplifier, and driver circuitry on the transmitter (Tx) side to geometrical design and optimization of the two or more coils that constitute the inductive link, to the matching, AC-DC conversion, and power management blocks on the receiver (Rx) side. Safe and robust system design considerations in response to non-idealities and various types of disturbances to the WPT circuits, such as misalignments, load variations, heat dissipation, and interference will be discussed, while looking at both open-loop andclosed-loop system behaviors.

Biographies

• Chunting Chris Mi

  (F'12) received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2001, all in electrical engineering.

  He is a Professor and the Chair of electrical and computer engineering and the Director of the Department of Energy funded Graduate Automotive Technology Education Center for Electric Drive Transportation, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, CA, USA. Prior to joining SDSU, he was with University of Michigan, Dearborn, from 2001 to 2015. He was the President and the Chief Technical Officer of 1Power Solutions, Inc., from 2008 to 2011. He is the Co-Founder of Mia Technologies, LLC and SNC Technology Inc. He has conducted extensive research and has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers.

  He has taught tutorials and seminars on the subject of hybrid electric vehicles/plugin hybrid electric vehicles for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the IEEE, workshops sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He has delivered courses to major automotive OEMs and suppliers, including GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Hyundai, Tyco Electronics, A&D Technology, Johnson Controls, Quantum Technology, Delphi, and the European Ph.D. School. He has offered tutorials in many countries, including the U.S., China, South Korea, Singapore, Italy, France, and Mexico. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles and delivered 30 invited talks and keynote speeches. His research interests include electric drives, power electronics, electric machines, renewable-energy systems, and electrical and hybrid vehicles. Dr. Mi is the recipient of “Distinguished Teaching Award” and “Distinguished Research Award” of the University of Michigan- Dearborn, the 2007 IEEE Region 4 “Outstanding Engineer Award,” “IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Outstanding Professional Award,” and the “SAE Environmental Excellence in Transportation (E2T).” He has also served as a panelist in major IEEE and SAE conferences.

• Maysam Ghovanloo

  (F'19) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, and the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997. He also received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2003 and 2004.

  From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Ghovanloo was an Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. Since 2007, he has been with the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is a Professor and the founding director of the GT-Bionics Lab. He has 10 issued patents and has authored or coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed book chapters, conference, and journal publications on implantable microelectronic devices, integrated circuits and microsystems for medical applications, and modern assistive and rehabilitation technologies.

  Dr. Ghovanloo is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He was a CAS Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2015-2016. He was the general chair of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) in 2015, and technical program co-chair in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II from 2008-2011, as well as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Tommy Nobis Barrier Breaker Award for Innovation, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage.