Design of power supply for electromagnetic induction-coil launchers with matrix converter

Issue of the electromagnetic launch technology in recent decades has been considered seriously. Power supply makes up sensitive and significant part of this launchers. in the previous power supplies that designed for launchers, the energy storage such as inductors and capacitors are used, that the major disadvantage of this power supplies is great weight and size of them and this problem is a serious limitation for implementation and expansion of these launchers. Also, in some of them, is used indirect method for frequency conversion (AC-DC-AC). In this paper a scheme is proposed that by using the matrix converters, obtains the specifications required for the supply of coil-induction launcher directly, that not required to any energy storages and uses power of electricity network instead of using the energy storage resources.