Vibration Energy Harvesting is being investigated for autonomous sensors and actuators that mainly utilize ambient and machine induced vibrations. Recently mechanical motion amplification is incorporated for improving power to weight ratio of vibration harvesters. The present study is motivated to investigate mechanical motion amplification characteristics with different configurations. The parameters investigated are motion amplification ratio, …
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Assessment of the Role of Structural Nonlinearity in Galloping Energy Harvesters
The study compares different variants of aeroelastic energy harvesters due to the power they generate. For this purpose, models of devices with different stiffness characteristics were prepared: linear, nonlinear, with combined stiffness and bistable. Then, using the authorial procedure, analytical expressions that describe the power of each system were determined and the influence of individual …
Minimization of Critical Flow Velocity of Aeroelastic Energy Harvester via Delayed Feedback Control
The paper describes the procedure of modelling and optimization of the aeroelastic energy harvester from the point of view of their operation at very low flow velocities. Using analytical solutions of models of different device variants, the relationships between their efficiency and flow velocity were presented. By way of analytical considerations, the conditions for high …
Energy Harvesting Shock Absorber with Linear Generator and Mechanical Motion Amplification
Energy harvesting shock absorbers can generate about 15-20 W of electric power for normal suspension velocities. However, higher weight, fail safe characteristics and space limitations have restricted development of regenerative shock absorbers to research prototypes. Power to weight ratio of regenerative shock absorbers can be improved by incorporating motion amplification. In the presented work, an …