Accurate traffic flow detection plays a critical role in intelligent traffic control systems. However, conventional fixed video detection devices often face challenges such as occlusion and overlap in high-density traffic scenarios, which leads to distortions in vehicle detection. To address this issue, it is essential to obtain precise vehicle data as a reliable reference for managing traffic flow during peak periods. In this paper, we propose an intelligent detection scheme using an improved YOLOv8n target recognition algorithm combined with a ByteTrack multi-target tracking algorithm. A collaborative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collaborative detection framework is also established, integrating UAVs and fixed detection devices to work in tandem. Such a multi-UAV collaborative data acquiring system is designed for efficient, continuous, and uninterrupted operation, employing a three-drone rotational detection strategy. UAVs offer additional flexibility and coverage in obtaining vehicle data. However, limited power could be an essential challenge to the system’s wireless physical link stability and safety. To overcome power limitations during UAV collaboration, a wireless charging (WC) system is introduced, enabling automatic constant current–constant voltage (CC-CV) switching and preventing damage from accidental data link disabling. This collaborative traffic data acquiring and transmission system ensures a stable power supply for UAVs during high-density traffic periods, supporting their reliable UAV collaborative wireless data link. Experimental results show that the collaborative detection architecture combined with wireless charging can achieve high detection accuracy, with the recognition accuracy remaining between 0.95 and 0.99.
In an underground inductive power transfer (IPT), it is inevitable to produce the phenomenon of misalignment between the transmitter and the receiver, which will reduce the output current, voltage and output efficiency of the whole IPT system. Aiming to solve this problem, a universal hybrid coupler is proposed, which can still stabilize the output in the expected range and has the ability of anti-misalignment when the X and Z directions are misaligned. The coupler is composed of a BP coupler and type network. The secondary edge of the coupler introduces a network, which decouples the two main coils on the same side of the receiver from the auxiliary coil and reduces the complexity of the system. The coupler can effectively reduce the coupling fluctuation caused by physical movement between the downhole transmitting end and the receiving end, thereby ensuring the stable output of the coupler. As a widely used IPT system, it can access the rest of the circuit topology whose output is independent of the load and achieve misalignment-tolerant output. Finally, based on the proposed hybrid IPT coupler theory, a 500 W misalignment-tolerant coupler prototype was built, and the compensation topologies were configured as series–series (SS) and series/inductance/capacitance/capacitor (S/LCC) structures. When the X and Z direction is misaligned, the constant current and voltage independent of the load can be output by switching the compensation topology. The experimental results are the same as the theoretical analysis.
To satisfy the constant-current/constant-voltage (CC/CV) charging requirements of electric-vehicle batteries, this paper investigates the extension of an established fixed-frequency reconfigurable three-coil wireless power transfer system using a modified receiver-side LCC-type network. The receiver-side shunt capacitor introduces a current-dividing path, so the receiver-coil current differs from the equivalent rectifier-load current and the strict self-resonant value of the L2—C2 branch no longer provides the intended CC regulation. A current-division-aware fundamental-harmonic model is established, and a closed-form correction gives C2 = 21.950 nF instead of the strict resonant value of 22.825 nF at 85 kHz. Calculated results show that the maximum CC target error over RL = 15–35 Ω is reduced from 8.948% to 0.031%, while the calculated CC/CV transition resistance is restored from 39.25 Ω to 34.97 Ω. Comparative analytical results are provided for the series-compensated baseline, the strictly resonant LCC-type configuration, and the corrected LCC-type configuration, together with receiver-current and coupling-sensitivity assessments. At RL = 35 Ω, the retained prototype measurements give an output voltage of 109.14 V, an output current of 3.121 A, an output power of 0.341 kW, and a DC-DC efficiency of 93.120%. The prototype measurements confirm the nominal operating target of the corrected design, while the analytical and numerical results clarify the modeling, correction, and current-stress tradeoffs introduced by the modified receiver network.
To protect the battery, radio energy transmission charging typically uses constant current (CC) charging before switching to constant voltage (CV) charging to enhance battery durability. This paper proposes adding an auxiliary clamp coil to the original circuit topology. The IPT battery charger designed with the auxiliary clamp coil can achieve both constant current (CC) and constant voltage (CV) outputs. The mutual inductance between the auxiliary clamp coil and the primary side coil greatly influences the output performance of the entire IPT system, so the auxiliary clamp coil should not be too large. To solve this problem, an S-S-PS circuit with secondary compensation topology in the secondary coil is proposed. This circuit topology reduces the size of the auxiliary clamp coil, allowing it to be placed in an optimal position. When the constant voltage output critical position is reached, the IPT system can still automatically, continuously, and smoothly switch between CC and CV modes. Consequently, this approach avoids increased cost consumption associated with detecting CC-CV switching thresholds, adding wireless transmission communication modules, real-time control of the power transmitter, and active protection of the circuit during constant current charging. Finally, a 48 V/2.5 A prototype was built to verify that the IPT system has CC-CV conversion functionality.