Wireless Charging of EVs - Overview, Critical Challenges and Possible Solutions

Speaker

Suvendu Samanta
Assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

Title

"Wireless Charging of EVs - Overview, Critical Challenges and Possible Solutions"

Abstract

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology promises a very convenient, reliable, and safe way of transferring power wirelessly. The applications of this technology are charging electric vehicles (EVs), electronic gadgets, implants, and powering LED lighting and data centers. The first part of this seminar will address WPT converters, compensations, design, and control techniques. The later part will discuss the critical progress of the WPT coil technology and associated challenges. Finally, this talk will throw some light on critical challenges that the overall WPT system is facing and the possible solutions to these challenges.

About Speaker

Suvendu Samanta received his B.E. degree from IIEST Shibpur, India, in 2009, the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2018, all in Electrical Engineering. He was with Coal India Ltd. from 2009 to 2011. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Research Engineer in the ECE department at the National University of Singapore. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at FREEDM Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, from 2018 to 2020.

He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research interests include modeling and controlling power converter topologies, wireless power transfer, and transportation electrification. He received the Gold Medal from The Governor-General of Canada for academic excellence.