Title
Design of a Vibration Energy Harvester based on Coupled Oscillators
Abstract
In this paper vibration energy harvesters based on coupled oscillators were compared to single degree of freedom (SDoF) systems. The harvester concepts were compared based on two cases: 1) a signal where a combination of two harmonic motions is continuously present and 2) a signal where the harmonic motions are alternating. Three configurations of the coupled oscillator harvester concept were presented and optimized for maximum power output. It was found that a coupled oscillator with two electromagnetic dampers performed equally well as an array of two SDoF systems. Coupled oscillators with only a single electromagnetic damper performed worse than the SDoF array. A prototype was built to validate the simulations and good correspondence between simulations and experiments was found.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICCMA46720.2019.8988637
2019 7th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
energy harvesting,non-linear dynamics,compliant mechanisms
Conference
978-1-7281-3788-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulus Schaap100.34
Thijs Willem Albert Blad200.34
Maarten Pieter Lustig300.34
Farbod Alijani400.34