Integration of Inductively Coupled Power Transfer and Hybrid Energy Storage System: A Multiport Power Electronics Interface for Battery-Powered Electric Vehicles

Detailed in this paper is a multiport power electronics interface which serves as an energy router for on-board electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with inductively coupled power transfer (ICPT) and hybrid energy storage systems (HESS). The existing body of literature on HESSs lacks a unified controller and modular, flexible structure as well as integration of ICPT. In battery/ultracapacitor systems, this leads to piece-meal control of sources resulting in battery currents which are not fully decoupled from high-frequency/high-magnitude current and ultra-capacitor (UC) state of charge (SoC) not being properly controlled. A central controller is proposed in this paper which completely decouples the battery from both high-frequency and high-magnitude current, controls the SoC of the UCs, and models the SoC of the UCs in the stability analysis of the system. This system is particularly useful for online charging of HEVs in highway-type applications where ICPT pulse charging will be present. Solving the challenges of pulse charging will bring ICPT technology one step closer to widespread integration which has the potential to greatly reduce societies´ dependence on fossil fuel. Simulation and experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed techniques.