PELS Webinar Series - Wireless Charging of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV’s) Presented by Dr. John M. Miller - Now Available

Dr. John Miller

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John M. Miller joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in December 2010 where he is principal investigator on electric machine innovations, wireless power transfer and power electronic systems.  Prior to this he was Vice President at Maxwell Technologies in San Diego, CA and Technical Advisor to the CEO with responsibilities in ultracapacitor energy storage systems and applications.  Dr. Miller spent four years in private practice as an industry consultant, expert witness, author and guest lecturer. He has 20 years of experience in the automotive industry in a series of engineering and research and development positions with the Ford Motor Company. He holds 53 patents and has written more than 170 scientific and technical papers and five books, including Hybrid Vehicle Propulsion Systems, which was published in 2003 and 2nd edition in 2010 and most recently Ultracapacitor Applications in July 2011.

He holds a BS degree from the University of Arkansas, an MS degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and a doctorate from Michigan State University, all in electrical engineering.

He served as General Chair for the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition, ECCE2011.

Dr. Miller is a Fellow of SAE, Fellow of IEEE and IEEE Industry Applications Society distinguished lecturer for 2012-2013, past editor-in-chief Power Electronics Society news for 6 years, recipient of the IEEE 2009 Kliman Innovator award, recipient of IEEE PEL’s 2010 Distinguished Service Award, and a registered professional engineer for over 31 years.Click to watch this webinar!

This Tutorial Covers:

• The essentials of magnetic resonance coupling and relevant aspects of WPT operation.
• An analytical approach to calculate the coupling coefficient of WPT.  Coupling coefficient is now selected as the desired method of coupling coil interoperability testing by the SAE J2954 Wireless Charging task force.
• A control strategy is proposed, based on grid-side power converter regulation, to optimize overall system performance.
• Modeling and simulation of WPT is presented along with some experimental results obtained from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory WPT apparatus are presented that showcase the dynamic in-motion charging of PEV’s.