Marker-Free Coil-Misalignment Detection Approach Using TMR Sensor Array for Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles

This paper presents an approach to detect the lateral coil misalignment for the dynamic wireless charging system using a tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) sensor array. The component of the magnetic field generated from the transmitting coil can directly provide the information of the coil misalignment between transmitting and receiving coils. A sensor array composed of 15 uniaxial TMR sensors was implemented to measure the vector magnetic field for detecting the coil misalignment. Both 3-D finite-element method modeling and experimental results over a relatively large misalignment range were presented to substantiate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed approach.