Wireless Power Transfer Using Inductive Coupling

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Mentor: Dr. Hamid Allamehzadeh
Contributors: Jacob Chavez, Micah Viera, Matthew Leiba

Wireless Power Transfer (WP) is an emerging technology with a high level of potential to revolutionize the industry. The WP technology is contactless, by means of electromagnetic radiation to transmit power from a source to a predetermined distance.
There are various applications currently in use, such as wireless charging, and Tesla is currently developing a parking location that will allow wireless charging to its Electric Vehicles. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) currently uses this convention to power circuits remotely through an antenna. There are both passive and active transmission of wireless power. Overall, the WP components in a system must include the receiver, the transmitter, and the power generation. The receiver converts the magnetic waves back into current at an orthogonal angle to the wire.
The aim in this paper is to verify theoretical aspects and practical results from experimentation and implementation. There are various techniques for transmitting power wirelessly, and different shapes of the transmission loop. The experimentation will compose of two inductive coils of copper wire of specific radius. We will start with the two coils superimposed one on the other with no distance between them. The experiment will take subsequent measurements at a slightly larger distance, to observe the phenomena of reaction between the two.