Publication detail

Experimental evaluation of Tusi couple based energy harvester for scavenging power from human motion

SMILEK, J. HADAŠ, Z.

Original Title

Experimental evaluation of Tusi couple based energy harvester for scavenging power from human motion

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper deals with the experimental performance evaluation of the prototype of a novel inertial energy harvester based on Tusi couple mechanism. The harvester was developed as an autonomous power source for environments with very low frequency and magnitude of mechanical vibrations available. The experiments were conducted using human body during different activities as a source of mechanical excitation, with the prospect of using the harvester for powering up future wearable electronic devices. Four different locations on a single measurement specimen were picked for the harvester placement-back of the head, belt, wrist and ankle. Measurements in each location comprised of walking on a straight and level path at natural speed, walking up and down the stairs, jumping, running, and location-specific activities that were expected to provide significant output power. The measured average output power of the device with dimensions 50x50x20 mm on empirically selected 2 kΩ electrical load reached up to 6.5 mW, obtained with the device attached to the ankle while shaking the leg.

Keywords

Energy harvesting

Authors

SMILEK, J.; HADAŠ, Z.

Released

10. 10. 2018

Publisher

EDP Sciences

Location

Lisbon, Portugal

ISBN

2261-236X

Periodical

MATEC Web of Conferences

Number

211

State

French Republic

Pages from

1

Pages to

6

Pages count

6

URL

https://www.matec-https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/abs/2018/70/matecconf_vetomacxiv2018_05004/matecconf_vetomacxiv2018_05004.html

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/196413

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT151686,
  author="Jan {Smilek} and Zdeněk {Hadaš}",
  title="Experimental evaluation of Tusi couple based energy harvester for scavenging power from human motion",
  booktitle="The 14th International Conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC XIV)",
  year="2018",
  series="211",
  journal="MATEC Web of Conferences",
  number="211",
  pages="1--6",
  publisher="EDP Sciences",
  address="Lisbon, Portugal",
  doi="10.1051/matecconf/201821105004",
  issn="2261-236X",
  url="https://www.matec-https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/abs/2018/70/matecconf_vetomacxiv2018_05004/matecconf_vetomacxiv2018_05004.html"
}