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Power Line Communication in Electric Vehicles

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicular Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 3867

Special Issue Editor

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The integration of sensors and measurement systems within vehicles is increasingly necessary due to the amount of functions they must perform.

Getting these sensors to communicate with each other requires effective and efficient communication networks that are, at the same time, extremely easy to wire and manage.

For this reason, power line communication becomes a way to increase the number of sensors by taking advantage of existing wiring.

This Special Issue offers an opportunity to collect theoretical, applicative, or review articles on the use of PLCs on land, sea, or air vehicles. The Special Issue will publish full research papers and reviews. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

  • Power line communication (PLC);
  • Real time communication;
  • Vehicle communication bus;
  • Smart sensor;
  • Vehicles;
  • Electrical vehicles.

Dr. Giambattista Gruosso
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • PLC
  • real time communication
  • vehicle communication bus
  • smart sensor
  • vehicles
  • electrical vehicles

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Performance Analysis of Orthogonal Multiplexing Techniques for PLC Systems with Low Cyclic Prefix Length and Symbol Timing Offset
by Túlio Fernandes Moreira, Ândrei Camponogara, Sobia Baig and Moisés Vidal Ribeiro
Sensors 2023, 23(9), 4363; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23094363 - 28 Apr 2023
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1120
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This paper investigates the degradation caused by interference resulting from cyclic prefix violation and symbol timing offset in narrowband power line communication systems. In this sense, it presents a unified formulation from which Hermitian symmetric orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (HS-OFDM), orthogonal chirp division [...] Read more.
This paper investigates the degradation caused by interference resulting from cyclic prefix violation and symbol timing offset in narrowband power line communication systems. In this sense, it presents a unified formulation from which Hermitian symmetric orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (HS-OFDM), orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (OCDM), single-carrier cyclic prefix (SCCP), and orthogonal time–frequency division multiplexing (OTFDM) can be easily derived. The paper then provides closed-form expressions for quantifying the aforementioned interference in the presence of a frequency domain equalizer. The numerical analyses exhibit the performances of these schemes under various data communication conditions, such as the availability of channel state information, the presence or absence of interference, modeling of additive noise as a white or colored Gaussian random process, frequency domain equalizer type, and the use of bit and power allocation techniques. The closed-form expressions and performance analyses regarding achievable data rate and bit error probability provide guidance for dealing with distinct constraints in narrowband power line communication (PLC) systems using the HS-OFDM, OCDM, SCCP, or OTFDM scheme. Lastly, the unified formulation and results obtained motivate the design of multi-scheme transceivers. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Line Communication in Electric Vehicles)
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Innovative Bidirectional Isolated High-Power Density On-Board Charge for Vehicle-to-Grid
by Roman Hrbac, Libor Hrdina, Vaclav Kolar, Zdenek Slanina, Vojtech Blazek, Tomas Vantuch, Mikołaj Bartłomiejczyk and Stanislav Misak
Sensors 2022, 22(21), 8473; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22218473 - 03 Nov 2022
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This paper deals with developing and implementing a bidirectional galvanically isolated on-board charger of a high-power density. The power density of the new charger was 4 kW/kg and 2.46 kW/dm3, and the maximum efficiency was 96.4% at 3.4 kW. Due to [...] Read more.
This paper deals with developing and implementing a bidirectional galvanically isolated on-board charger of a high-power density. The power density of the new charger was 4 kW/kg and 2.46 kW/dm3, and the maximum efficiency was 96.4% at 3.4 kW. Due to the requirement to achieve a high-power density, a single-stage inverter topology was used. Regarding switching losses, due to the topology of the circuit with so-called hard switching, the switching frequency was set to 150 kHz. A laboratory prototype was built to verify the properties and operating principles of the described charger topology. The on-board charger has been tested in a microgrid test platform. Due to the parasitic properties of the transformer and other electronic components, overvoltage with subsequent oscillations occurred on the primary side of the transformer and damped resonance on its secondary side. These parasitic properties caused interference and especially voltage stress on the semiconductor elements. These undesirable phenomena have been eliminated by adding an active element to the charger topology and a new transistor control strategy. This new switching control strategy of transistors has been patented. Full article
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