Adopting Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Optimize Inductively Coupled Contactless Power Transmission Systems for EV Charging

Today, using inductively coupled contactless power transmission systems (ICPT) to charge electric vehicles is a promising step in increasing efficiency of electric vehicles. In this paper, the design of an ICPT systembased on a rectangular coil configurationfor primary and secondary coil is presented. An analytical model of the contactless power transmission system is derived and is used tooptimize the performance of the system.System parameters are optimized using artificial bee colony algorithm and a new two-objective optimization problem is obtainedwhich optimizes the system parametersto reachmaximum efficiency while the minimum volume of copper is needed to be used. Moreover,the necessity of compensation in both primary and secondary studied and the best compensation technique based on the application of ICPT system is applied.The designed system performance while the primary and secondary windings are misaligned is investigated.Simulationsare done by MATLAB and ANSOFT MAXWELL and the results confirm theanalytical model and designed result as expected.