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The application of wireless power transfer technology in the underwater environment proposes both opportunities and challenges to undersea power feeding. Due to the attenuation of electromagnetic waves in seawater, the distance between transmitter and receiver is always maintained at a minimum value, which results in tight coupling between the transmitter and receiver. The tight coupling condition provides a low impedance loop for high-order harmonic, so the component of the harmonic wave is thus significantly increased and cannot be ignored in the power transmission system. In order to fully utilize the harmonic energy, a fundamental-harmonic dual-channel system was proposed and studied in this paper. Compared with single-channel systems transmitting fundamental wave only, the dual-channel system has higher power transmission capability, while the loss in dual channel system can be less than that of a single-channel system after proper optimization. A 3 kW experiment platform is established to verify the effectiveness of theoretical analysis.

An inductively coupled wireless power transfer system is proposed in this paper, which is designed to comply with the battery’s load characteristics. A loosely coupled transformer with high coupling coefficient is proposed. A heterogeneous compensation topology is proposed which is able to switch between constant current and constant voltage output mode according to the load resistance. The output characteristic curve agrees with the charging curve of the battery in a whole cycle. The proposed topology has a misalignment range of 300 mm where the coupling coefficient is 0.2. A 3 kW experimental platform is established to verify the theoretical analysis, and the experimental results show that the proposed loosely coupled transformer has high coupling coefficient and high power transmission efficiency (95.2% in aligned position) within a large misalignment range, which agrees with the charging scenario of the electric vehicle.

With the development of the logistics industry, low-voltage systems, such as intelligent logistics vehicles, have also started to propose application scenarios for wireless power transfer systems. As most logistics vehicles use lithium batteries for energy supply, the wireless charging system has to adapt to the charging characteristic curve of lithium batteries. In this paper, a dual-transmitter single-receiver compound resonant compensation topology with a high voltage ratio is proposed, and a corresponding magnetic coupler is designed and optimized through finite element analysis, which guarantees adaptive output curves according to the working state. A 1 kW experimental platform is established to verify the theoretical analysis, which realizes a high voltage transformation ratio with 90.3% efficiency. Throughout the whole charging process, the output curve agrees with the charging profile of the lithium battery, which can greatly extend the service life of lithium batteries.