Maintain Power Transmission and Efficiency Tracking Using Variable Capacitors for Dynamic WPT Systems

Zhu Junda is currently pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Pisa. He graduated with a master's degree from Zhejiang University in 2018, and worked for the State Grid from 2018 to 2022. His research interests include electromagnetic shielding and the dynamic wireless power transfer of electric vehicles.

Sami Barmada received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He currently is Full Professor with the Department of Energy, System, Territory, and Construction Engineering, University of Pisa. His research activity is mainly dedicated to applied electromagnetics, EM fields calculation, power-line communications, wireless power transfer devices, and non-destructive testing. He is author and coauthor of more than 150 papers in indexed international journals and refereed conferences. He was recipient of the John F Alcock Memorial Prize (2004), awarded annually to a paper published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers which concentrates on technical innovation in the railway traction field (S. Barmada, A. Landi, M. Papi, L. Sani, “Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis for Monitoring the Occurrence of Arcing on Overhead Electrified Railways”). Prof. Barmada is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Sociey (ACES). He served as ACES President from 2015 to 2017, and he is a member of the International Steering Committee of the CEFC Conference (Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation), editor in chief of the ACES Journal, and he has been general chairman and technical program chairman of many international conferences.

Prof. Antonino Musolino obtained an M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1990, and received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 1994. He is currently a Full Professor of electrical machines at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Construction Engineering, University of Pisa. His current research activities are focused on linear electromagnetic devices, motor drives for electric traction, and the development of analytical and numerical methods in electromagnetics.

Dr. Luca Sani received a Ph.D. degree in automation and industrial robotics from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2000. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Constructions Engineering, University of Pisa. He holds three international patents in the field of electric machines. His current research interests include power trains for hybrid electric vehicles, electric aircraft propulsion, and the design of axial flux electrical machines and medium frequency transformers for DC–DC converters. He received the 2004 John F. Alcock Memorial Prize Award and the 2007 TA Stewart-Dyer Prize/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize, both given by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK).