Q3 Project 2: Electrified Roadways

July ’25 Updates

Project leads: Khurram Afridi, Cornell University, & Marv Halling, Utah State University 

Oscar Moncada presenting at the WPTCE conference in Rome.

Events:

Wireless Power Technology Conference & Expo (WPTCE) Rome 2025

(Above) Dionysios presenting at WPTCE.
(Right) Oscar Moncada, Dionysios Aliprantis, and Pablo Iglesias in Rome.

At the WPTCE in Rome this June 3-6, ASPIRE student Oscar Moncada presented his research, co-authored with Pablo Iglesias and ASPIRE faculty member John Haddock. Dionysios Aliprantis also represented ASPIRE as the featured speaker in the “Wireless Power Transfer for Electrification” session, as well as presenting a poster on behalf of his students Vatan Mehar, Isaac Abram, and Nick Frooninckx.

  • Structural Modeling and Assessment of Rigid Pavement with Embedded Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer Components
    Moncada, O., Iglesias, P., Haddock, J., Purdue
    Poster presented by Oscar Moncada.
  • Electrified Roadways with Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer
    Aliprantis, D., Purdue
    Presented by Dionysios Aliprantis at the “Wireless Power Transfer for Electrification” WPTCE session.
  • Receiver-Side Power Control of a 230 kW Three-Phase DWPT System for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
    Mehar, V., Abram, I., Frooninckx, N., Aliprantis, D., Pekarek, S., Purdue
    Poster presented by Dionysios Aliprantis.

Dive into more details and photos featuring their accomplishments here.

Publications:

  • Paper presented at IEEE ITEC 2025.
    • This paper was presented at the International Transportation Electrification Conference from June 18-20 in Anaheim, California.
    • Mehar, V., Abram, I., Frooninckx, N., Brovont, A., Aliprantis, D., and Pekarek, S. “Fabrication and characterization of roadway-embedded DWPT transmitter coils,” IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), Anaheim, CA, June 18–20, 2025.
  • Paper accepted for presentation this August.
    • Contreras, F., Torres-Machi, C., Raheem, A., Goodridge, J., & Katz, A. “Management Framework for Electrified Roadways Integrating Economic, Environmental, and Risk Analyses through an Expert-Based Approach.” 15th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management, 25–28 Aug. 2025, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Digest submitted and accepted for the lecture presentation at ECCE 2025, to be held in October.
    • “Loss Reduction in Pavement-Embedded Multi-MHz Capacitive Wireless Charging systems for Electric Vehicles”
  • 2 technical papers accepted
    • Sun, H., Ma, X., Hu, R., Christensen, R. “Precise Coil Alignment for Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles with RFID Sensing.” IEEE Wireless Communications. 04 Feb. 2025, IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10872857
    • Wei, W., Wang, J., Pi, D., Zhuang, W., He, T., Yin, G. “Moving-Window Integrated Physics-Data-Based Modeling of Four-Wheel Vehicle Lateral Dynamics.” Automotive Innovation. 20 May 2025, 8, 519–529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42154-024-00327-7

Tools & Technology Developments:

This quarter, the team has presented the ASPIRE-based 3-phase DWPT topology to the SAE standards committee, which is focused on wireless power transfer. Moving forward, the team is preparing for testing at USU and/or the INDOT pilot to demonstrate the technology’s commercialization readiness. It is pending validation of system performance, leveraging the Cummins vehicle to be performed in August 2025.

This team also developed two ABAQUS finite element models. One is a mechanical model developed with ductile failure criteria to predict the structural responses of specimens without electrical stress under quasi-static loading. The second is a Hipot & mechanical model that was developed by sequentially coupling Hipot simulation and followed by a mechanical model. Both models were successfully developed and validated with in-house mechanical testing results.