Guest Editorial: Special Section on Advanced WPT Systems With High Efficiency and Misalignment Tolerance Characteristics

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has become a developing trend with the advantages of flexibility and security. However, WPT systems also face some challenges, such as output power fluctuations caused by misalignment or dynamic charging, accurate modeling of high-order systems, system integration, load estimation, and simultaneous transmission of power and data. Therefore, advanced topologies and magnetic coupler design for WPT systems are becoming critical topics. This Special Section on Advanced WPT Systems With High Efficiency and Misalignment Tolerance Characteristics in <sc>IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics</sc> (TPEL) provides an insight into some of the newly emerging challenges and potential solutions to overcome those issues. For this Special Section, 120 submissions were received. Twenty-three are published in the October issue. The rest of the papers will be published in the November and December issues of TPEL.