Special Session on Resonant and soft-switching compensation topologies applied in Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Research and development activities on Wireless Power Transfer System (WPTS) has been increased considerably in the last few years mainly for Electric Vehicle (EV) applications. The wireless charging process of EVs can be carried out by two ways namely stationary wireless charging and in-motion wireless charging. Former one occur while vehicle is stationary and later one occur when vehicle is moving along the road. The main issues in WPTS is the efficiency and amount of transferable power. Such requirements can be achieved by appropriate compensation topologies.

Thus, in order to guarantee optimal operating condition of the WTPS and to maintain high transferable power and efficiency in a wide range of conditions, new-dedicated power electronic converters operating at high frequency, and taking advantage of soft-switching and resonance commutation need to be used. This special session (SS) aims to collect scientific and technical papers on the field. Researchers from both academia and industry are invited to present technological trends original solutions and in-progress researches on issues such on power electronic converter topologies in particular the resonant and soft-switching ones applied in WPTS.