Wireless Power Transfer: Principles and Applications

The book gives a comprehensive view of wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies, with a special emphasis on the multiple-pickup WPT. A number of applications is also described, including the systems employed in portable consumer electronics, in-flight charging for unmanned aerial vehicles, underwater wireless charging, and the high-power electrical vehicle (EV) wireless charging that has been already mentioned above. The book is organized in four parts, each one of them consisting of multiple chapters. The first part is divided into two chapters: an overview of several WPT technologies is given, but the main emphasis is given to inductive power transfer (IPT) technology. The second part of the book gives a view of the issues related to the design and optimization of coupled coils and power circuits.