Machine-Learning-Assisted Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicle Charging Under Coil Misalignment
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Recent advances in wireless power transfer (WPT) have enabled contactless charging of electric vehicles (EVs), but coil misalignment and load variation still cause significant efficiency degradation and DC-link voltage fluctuations. This paper proposes a lightweight deep neural network (DNN) that predicts optimal compensation parameters in a series-series inductive WPT system to maximize powertransfer efficiency while regulating the output voltage under lateral and angular misalignment. The DNN is trained on a dataset generated from a physics-based circuit model over a wide range of misalignment and load conditions. At run time, the trained model provides real-time predictions of compensation capacitance adjustment and inverter switching frequency, which are applied through a simple supervisory controller. MATLAB/Simulink simulations show that the proposed ML-assisted controller improves system efficiency by up to 11.8% and reduces output-voltage ripple by 46.3% compared to a conventional fixed-parameter design under severe misalignment scenarios. The proposed method requires only basic sensing of coil currents and voltages and can be implemented on low-cost embedded platforms, making it suitable for practical EV WPT systems.