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Energies 2017,10, 315 themainpurposewas tovalidate thepower lossdue to lateralmisalignment, andalso tovalidate theoperatingconceptof theproposedsensorcoil. Because thefirstexperimentoperatedneara90W power level, a static load (10Ω resistor)wasused insteadof the experimental vehiclebecause the statedpower levelexceededtherecommendedoperationsettingsusedintheexperimentalvehicle. For the secondexperiment, themainpurposewas tovalidate theoverall operating conceptof the ACAS.ThesameDWCsystemfromthefirstexperimentwereused,but thepower levelwasreduced to10W,so that theexperimentalvehiclecouldbeused. Theoperationof theexperimentalvehiclecan beviewedinthevideoshowninS1. 4.1. ExperimentalSetup ADWCsystemwasconstructed in laboratoryscale tovalidate theoperationof theACASsystem. The source coil unit and the load coil/sensor coil unit are shown inFigure 15. The electrical and dimensionparametersof thecoilunitsareshowninTable2. (a) (b) Figure15.Coil constructionof the (a) sourcecoilunitand(b) loadcoil/sensorcoilunit. Table2.Dimensionsandelectricalparametersof thecoilsused in theexperiment. Parameter SourceCoil LoadCoil SensorCoil Dimensions (W×L×H) 19.0cm×54.0cm×1.5cm 8.0cm×16.0cm×2.0cm 2.0cm×2.5cm×2.5cm #of turns 20 42 10 inductance 590.00μH 186.15μH 2.45μH Thesourcecoilunitandthe loadcoil eachconsistof ferritecoreassembliesasshowninFigure16. Incaseof thesourcecoil ferritecoreassembly, it consistsof ferriteblocksof twodifferent types,which hasbeen identifiedas ferriteblocktypeAandtypeB, respectively. Thedifferencebetweenthe two ferriteblocksare itsdimensions,while theotherspecificationsare identical, asshowninTable3. (a) (b) Figure16.Ferritecoreassemblies for the (a) sourcecoiland(b) loadcoilunit. 335