Wireless Power Transfer for E-Mobility: Fundamentals and Design Guidelines for Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles

Wireless Power Transfer for e-Mobility: Fundamentals and Design Guidelines for Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and engineers engaged in the development of automotive WPT systems.

The book opens with an overview of wireless technologies for power transfer and their evolution over time, then focusing on the application of this technology to electric mobility highlighting its importance in terms of impact and perspectives on the development of sustainable transport and autonomous driving. Chapters discuss the fundamentals of electromagnetic field in WPT systems and the circuit modelling. In addition, they examine core current electric vehicle systems and present-day automotive WPT standards. Design techniques of magnetic couplers, including compensation networks are explored in-depth alongside power electronics techniques for automotive WPT systems. Both stationary and dynamic automotive WPT systems are rigorously assessed. Finally, the problems of electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic field safety are described with particular attention to shielding techniques for the mitigation of magnetic field emissions.

Addressing essential knowledge from foundational to advanced levels, Wireless Power Transfer for e-Mobility provides practical guidance to engineers and researchers developing the future of electric mobility.

• Provides an advanced foundation for research and current industrial applications in automotive WPT systems
• Develops proven methodologies linked to some case studies using examples drawn from global practice
• Explores the role of WPT in near-future mobility scenarios, with featured coverage of electrified transportation
• Includes an extensive usage of equations from MATLAB, Spice and COMSOL

Mauro Feliziani is Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of L’Aquila, Italy, from 1994. From 1987 to 1994 he was with the University of Rome “La Sapienza” as a Researcher (1987-1990), Assistant Professor (1990-1992) and Associate Professor (1992-1994). He is author or co-author of around 200 papers published mainly in the fields of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and wireless power transfer. In 1994 he was co-founder of EMC Europe Symposium and Chair of the International Steering Committee in 2012-2015. He was the General Chair of the EMC Europe Symposium in 2002, 2005 and 2020, and Technical Program Committee Chair in 2012. He was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC from 1995 to 2000. He was Guest Editor of Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics in 2002 and Energies in 2018. He was the recipient of several awards in the field of EMC, WPT systems and numerical methods.

Tommaso Campi received the Laurea degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2013 and the PhD degree in electrical engineering in 2017, both at the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy. He is currently a researcher RTD-a at the University of L’Aquila. His research interests include wireless power transfer and electromagnetic compatibility. He was the recipient of several awards in the field of the WPT systems.

Silvano Cruciani received the Laurea degree in information and automation engineering in 2010 and the PhD degree in electrical engineering in 2015, both at the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of L’Aquila and Sapienza University of Rome. He is currently RTD-b researcher at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. His main research interests include numerical methods, electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media and wireless power transfer.

Francesca Maradei is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Sapienza University, Italy. She received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997, both at Sapienza University of Rome. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Sapienza University in 1996 where she is currently full professor. She has authored more than 150 technical papers in the field of computational electromagnetics and EMC. She received the 2015 Laurence Cumming Award for outstanding service to the IEEE EMC society. She was the President of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society from 2010 to 2011, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC from 1999 to 2000. She is currently a life member of the IEEE EMC Society, and a member of the EMC Europe International Steering Committee.