Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Advanced and Emerging Technologies of High Efficiency and Long-Distance Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has become a popular research direction in the field of industrial applications, with the advantages of contactless operation, high degree of freedom, and great controllability. However, there are still some challenging issues that need to be resolved. First of all, more advanced circuit topologies and magnetic coupling structures need to be designed to achieve the power conversion goals of diversified applications. Second, novel control methods, optimization algorithms, and modeling methods enable systems to be better controlled and designed. Finally, potential application scenarios need to be discovered so that this novel power transfer method can be applied in more suitable applications. Therefore, this topic is organized by the responsible editor to gather the power of more scholars. With reviewers' hard work and considerations, 32 papers were finally accepted for publication in this Special Issue. © 1972-2012 IEEE.