Affiliation:
1. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
Abstract
Recently, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has been introduced into magnetic resonant coupling (MRC) enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) systems for concurrent charging of multiple devices. However, impedance mismatching phenomena caused by strong TX-RX, TX-TX, or RX-RX coupling greatly affect the power delivered to load (PDL) in practical charging systems. To solve this issue, we propose an effective scheduling algorithm for Impedance Matching–enhanced PDL optimization in MIMO MRC-WPT systems (called
IMeP
), which integrates the transmitter scheduling together with the impedance matching techniques, i.e., adjusting TX coils for tuning TX-RX/TX-TX coupling and grouping RXs to separate strongly coupled RX pairs. We formulate this as a joint optimization problem and decouple it into three sub-problems, i.e., current scheduling, coil adjustment, and RX grouping. We then solve them through alternating direction method of multipliers–based, randomized beamforming–based, and graph clique cover–based algorithms, respectively. Extensive experiments are performed on a prototype testbed, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution. Compared with the state-of-the-art power transfer efficiency maximization solution, the proposed algorithm
IMeP
achieves a 74.7× performance improvement of PDL on average.
Funder
Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province
China National Natural Science Foundation
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences
University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications
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