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Decoupling Control Scheme Bridging Frequency Tracking and DC Output Stabilizing for Wireless Charging System of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

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In harsh marine environments, small variations in parameters of the underwater wireless charging system would lead to system detuning and dynamic fluctuation of DC output, thereby reducing power transfer efficiency and output performance. To achieve maximum efficiency tracking and DC output stabilizing, a decoupling control scheme bridging frequency tracking and DC output stabilizing for the wireless charging system of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is proposed. To be specific, the primary side of the wireless charging system adopts adaptive frequency tracking control (AFTC) to ensure that the operating frequency can always work near the resonant frequency during the charging process of the lithium battery. The secondary side adopts double closed-loop control of voltage and current based on buck converter such that the DC output can be stabilized for efficiently charging of lithium battery. Experimental results show that the proposed decoupling control scheme can realize frequency tracking on the primary side while the lithium battery can be charged with constant current and constant voltage, under maximum efficiency.

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This work was supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) [grant number 201906575007]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number 3132019103, 3132019344]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 51009017, 51379002, 51777024] and the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program [grant number XLYC1807013].

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  1. Center for Intelligent Marine Vehicles, and the School of Marine Electrical Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, China

    Zhongjiu Zheng & Ning Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Sara Ahmed

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Zhongjiu Zheng received his B.Eng. degree in electronics and information engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2003 and 2012, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Marine Electrical Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, and also a Visiting Scholar with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA. His current research interests include underwater wireless power transfer, marine electrical systems and control, and marine electric drive.

Ning Wang received his B.Eng. degree in marine engineering and a Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from the Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From September 2008 to September 2009, he was financially supported by China Scholarship Council to work as a joint-training Ph.D. student at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In view of his significant research at NTU, he received the Excellent Government-funded Scholars and Students Award in 2009. From August 2014 to August 2015, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include self-learning modeling and control, unmanned (marine) vehicles, machine learning and autonomous systems. He received the Nomination Award of Liaoning Province Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, and also won the State Oceanic Administration Outstanding Young Scientists in Marine Science and Technology, the China Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Award (First Prize), the Liaoning Province Award for Technological Invention (First Prize), the Liaoning Province Award for Natural Science (Second Prize), the Liaoning Youth Science and Technology Award (Top10 Talents), the Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents (First Level), the Liaoning Excellent Talents (First Level), the Science and Technology Talents the Ministry of Transport of the China, the Youth Science and Technology Award of China Institute of Navigation, and the Dalian Leading Talents. He has authored 3 books, and more than 100 SCI-indexed journal papers. He currently serves as members of IEEE TC on Industrial Informatics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and the China’s Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (CSNAME). He has been Leading Guest Editors of the Neurocomputing, the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, the International Journal of Advanced Robotics System, and the Advances in Mechanical Engineering. He currently serves as Associate Editors of the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, the Electronics (MDPI), the Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, and the Cyber-Physical Systems (Taylor-Francis).

Sara Ahmed is an assistant professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department in the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering with a power electronics concentration from Virginia Tech, Center for Power Electronics, in 2006, 2007, and 2011, respectively. She has five years of prior industry experience as a Senior Scientist at ABB’s U.S Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, NC. Her primary research interests are in the area of modeling, simulation and analysis of power electronics systems with a focus on control, stability, fault analysis, model prediction, integration of renewables and hardware-in-the-loop modeling and testing. She holds 7 patents, and more than 25 referred publications.

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Zheng, Z., Wang, N. & Ahmed, S. Decoupling Control Scheme Bridging Frequency Tracking and DC Output Stabilizing for Wireless Charging System of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 20, 1099–1110 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0542-2

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