Electric vehicle wireless charging technology: a state-of-the-art review of magnetic coupling systems

Electric vehicle wireless charging technology: a state-of-the-art review of magnetic coupling systems

• Fisher Taylor M.¹ , 
• Farley Kathleen Blair² , 
• Gao Yabiao¹ , 
• Bai Hua³  & 
• Ho Tse Zion Tsz^1, , 

• 1.

  Medical Robotics Laboratory, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. Phone: +1 706 542 3030

• 2.

  Southern Company Services, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama, USA

• 3.

  Advanced Power Electronics Laboratory, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA

• Author Bio:
  Taylor M. Fisher received her Bachelor's Degree in Biological Engineering from the College of Engineering, the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, with a focus in Biomedical Engineering. She currently works as a scientific editor for the Medical Robotics Lab at the University of Georgia.
  Kathleen Blair Farley is a research engineer at Southern Company Services, Inc, specializing in Electric Transportation. In this role, she evaluates both on-road and off-road forms of electric transportation and their interaction with the electrical grid. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is currently pursuing her Master s degree there with a focus on mechanical driveline efficiency.
  Yabiao Gao is pursuing his Ph.D in wireless power transfer at the College of Engineering, the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Before joining UGA, he received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Department of Precision Instrument Engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
  Hua Bai received his Bachelor's and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University., Beijing, China in 2002 and 2007, respectively. Bai was a post-doc fellow and research scientist in University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Now he is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kettering University, MI, USA. His research interests are the dynamic processes and transient pulsed power phenomena of power electronic devices, including variable frequency motor drive systems, high voltage and high power DC/DC converters, renewable energy and hybrid electric vehicles.
  ZionTsz HoTse received his Ph. D in Mechatronics in Medicine from Imperial College London. Currently he is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering and the Principal Investigator of the Medical Robotics Lab at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Before joining UGA, he was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Tse has been involved in designing and prototyping a broad range of novel analog-digital electronic devices, most of which have been applied in numerous clinical and industrial environments
• Corresponding author: Z.T. Ho Tse Email: ziontse@uga.edu