---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract For providing power from Vehicle to grid, the role of intelligent charger comes in to the action. The intelligent charger for vehicle to grid power flow comprises of AC-DC PWM converter and bidirectional converter. During the onpeak load condition,...

Distributed power-supply systems are an attractive solution to meeting the requirements (redundancy, modularity, battery backup, etc.) for the next generation of power-supply systems. In addition, the normalization regarding power factor and total harmonic distortion (THD) makes it necessary to include the power-factor correction in the input stage in those architectures. This paper presents a ...

Autonomous mobile robots are constrained in their long-term functionality due to a limited on-board power supply. Typically, rechargeable batteries are utilized that may only provide a few hours of peak usage before recharging is necessary. Recharging requires a robot to be taken offline, and attached to a battery charger via human intervention. This is unacceptable in environments where long-t...

One solution to the limited range of battery electric vehicles is the provision of a public charging infrastructure to enable longer journeys. This paper describes a simulation model of a centralized computer routing and reservation system based on the current charging infrastructure deployed (early 2016) in Ireland using the Irish population density and a trip length distribution. Monte Carlo ...

This work presents a novel highly efficient and low-stress battery charger with a resonant switch converter— based on resonance and zero-voltage-transition soft-switching theory—that reduces defects associated with high voltage and high current stresses caused by the resonance of traditional resonant circuits. The novel battery charger meets the requirement that all circuit components must oper...

— Although microsystems can replenish batteries and energize modules with ambient energy without having to store much energy on board, on-chip photovoltaic cells and thermoelectric generators generate 50–400 mV, which is usually not sufficiently high to operate transistors. Even though stacking cells is possible, the tradeoff in power is ultimately unfavorable because small transducers output l...

New perspectives for the electric vehicle (EV) operation in smart grids and smart homes context are presented. Nowadays, plugged-in EVs are equipped with on-board battery chargers just to perform the charging process from the electrical power grid (G2V – grid-to-vehicle mode). Although this is the main goal of such battery chargers, maintaining the main hardware structure and changing the digit...