Wearable biomechanical energy harvesting technologies

YM Choi, MG Lee, Y Jeon - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
Energy harvesting has been attracting attention as a technology that is capable of replacing
or supplementing a battery with the development of various mobile electronics. In …

A wearable textile-based pneumatic energy harvesting system for assistive robotics

RA Shveda, A Rajappan, TF Yap, Z Liu, MD Bell… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Wearable assistive, rehabilitative, and augmentative devices currently require bulky power
supplies, often making these tools more of a burden than an asset. This work introduces a …

Harvesting Inertial Energy and Powering Wearable Devices: A Review

H Zhang, Q Shen, P Zheng, H Wang, R Zou… - Small …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Amidst the swift progression of microelectronics and Internet of Things technology, wearable
devices are gradually gaining ground in the domains of human health monitoring. Recently …

Harke: Human activity recognition from kinetic energy harvesting data in wearable devices

S Khalifa, G Lan, M Hassan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kinetic energy harvesting (KEH) may help combat battery issues in wearable devices. While
the primary objective of KEH is to generate energy from human activities, the harvested …

A goblet-like non-linear electromagnetic generator for planar multi-directional vibration energy harvesting

Y Gu, W Liu, C Zhao, P Wang - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A novel electromagnetic energy harvester for in-plane multi-directional vibrations is
developed by letting a magnetic ball move on a two-dimensional surface which is generated …

Macro fiber composite-based energy harvester for human knee

F Gao, G Liu, BLH Chung, HHT Chan… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The harvesting of energy from human motion for portable and wearable electronic devices
has received considerable attention. This letter describes a lightweight macrofiber …

3D‐printed underwater super‐oleophobic shark skin toward the electricity generation through low‐adhesion sliding of magnetic nanofluid droplets

J Huang, Q Wang, Z Wu, Z Ma, C Yan… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable energy supply by converting mechanical to electric energy is critical for flexible
electronic technologies, soft robots, and biomedical applications. The development of …

A Review of Evaluation, Principles, and Technology of Wearable Electromagnetic Harvesters

B Zhou, S Zhang, W Liu, F Xu - ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IOT), and
metaspace technology, smart wearables have become increasingly prevalent. These …

Modeling and design of V-shaped piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with stopper for low-frequency broadband and shock excitation

W Jiang, L Wang, L Zhao, G Luo, P Yang, S Ning… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Broadband low-frequency vibration and shock energies are ubiquitous such as
biomechanical motion, which can be harvested to power wearable electronics. This paper …

Broadband vibration energy harvesting by application of stochastic resonance from rotational environments

Y Zhang, R Zheng, T Kaizuka, D Su, K Nakano… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
A model for energy harvesting from a rotating automotive tyre is suggested in which the
principle of stochastic resonance is advantageously exploited. A bistable response …