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Requirement-Driven Magnetic Beamforming for MIMO Wireless Power Transfer Optimization Motivation For the general MIMO setup, MultiSpot doesn’t consider peak current/voltage constraints. Yang et al. studied the magnetic beamforming problem in an MIMO MRC-WPT system to find all the boundary points of the multi-user power region with the peak current and voltage constraints for each TX. They simplified the problem by ignoring the mutual inductance among RXs. These researches lack the ability to control the power distribution among receivers, and could not be applied to the scenario when different RXs have different requirements of power which can be denoted as weight factors. Contribution We formulate the requirement-driven magnetic beamforming design in the MIMO MRC-WPT system as a weighted sum-power maximization problem. We consider the peak current/voltage constraints, and provides a high efficient, provable optimal solution.
We discuss the WSPMax problem with limited power budget where the peak current/voltage constraints are ignorable. We introduce a close-form theoretical bound of the WSPMax problem, and demonstrate that the power transfer efficiency maximization problem can be solved through TX-only solution without any feedback from the RXs, despite the fact that the beamforming is impacted by the interactions between TXs and RXs.