Two degrees of freedom piezoelectric vibration energy harvester

Wei Wang; Shengsheng Liu; Junyi Cao; Shengxi Zhou; Jing Lin

doi:10.1117/12.2219661

15 April 2016 Two degrees of freedom piezoelectric vibration energy harvester

Wei Wang, Shengsheng Liu, Junyi Cao, Shengxi Zhou, Jing Lin

Proceedings Volume 9799, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2016; 97990Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219661
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

Recently, vibration energy harvesting from surrounding environments to power wearable devices and wireless sensors in structure health monitoring has received considerable interest. Piezoelectric conversion mechanism has been employed to develop many successful energy harvesting devices due to its simple structure, long life span, high harvesting efficiency and so on. However, there are many difficulties of microscale cantilever configurations in energy harvesting from low frequency ambient. In order to improve the adaptability of energy harvesting from ambient vibrations, a two degrees of freedom (2-DOF) magnetic-coupled piezoelectric energy harvester is proposed in this paper. The electromechanical governing models of the cantilever and clamped hybrid energy harvester are derived to describe the dynamic characteristics for 2-DOF magnetic-coupled piezoelectric vibration energy harvester. Numerical simulations based on Matlab and ANSYS software show that the proposed magnetically coupled energy harvester can enhance the effective operating frequency bandwidth and increase the energy density. The experimental voltage responses of 2-DOF harvester under different structure parameters are acquired to demonstrate the effectiveness of the lumped parameter model for low frequency excitations. Moreover, the proposed energy harvester can enhance the energy harvesting performance over a wider bandwidth of low frequencies and has a great potential for broadband vibration energy harvesting.

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Wei Wang, Shengsheng Liu, Junyi Cao, Shengxi Zhou, and Jing Lin "Two degrees of freedom piezoelectric vibration energy harvester", Proc. SPIE 9799, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2016, 97990Q (15 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219661

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