Research on Soft-switching Circuit of Contactless Power Transmission System in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle#
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Abstract: In order to improve autonomous underwater vehicle’s activity and expand the scope of its navigation, contactless power transmission technology has been widely spread in recent years. The contactless power transmission system is loosely coupled coupler connection, making the transmission efficiency of the system is greatly reduced. In this paper, we use soft-switching circuit to improve the transmission efficiency of system. By investigating the passive lossless snubber circuit with non-minimum voltage stress, this paper designs a novel passive lossless snubber circuit based on Buck converter. The experiment results show that the designed circuit can reduce the switching losses effectively and return the energy stored in the buffering process to power supply. Key words: Contactless Power Transmission System;Soft-switching Circuit;non-minimum switch voltage stress circuit 0 Introduction With the popularization of autonomous underwater vehicle and enter the average field, expanding the ability of the AUV system and its operation scope, improving its endurance ability e the hot topics in the recent research. By analyzing the development status of autonomous underwater vehicle in domestic and international, we can see the major factor which restricts its endurance ability and operation time is energy problem [1-4]. The traditional way of power transmission needs electrical connections between power supply system and load, so in a harsh environment power supply will be much limited. Contactless power transmission system uses ic coupling for power transmission without any electrical connection, so it is suitable for harsh environments which can be widely used[5-6]. This paper researches on contactless power transmission system of autonomous underwater vehicle. Contactless power transmission system is