Environmental energy harvesting boosts self-powered sensing

H Luo, T Yang, X Jing, Y Cui, W Qin - Materials Today Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Self-powered sensing technology has extremely important application value in many areas,
like healthcare, meteorology, internet of things (IoT) and so on. The progress of energy …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear dynamics of a new energy harvesting system with quasi-zero stiffness

J Margielewicz, D Gąska, G Litak, P Wolszczak… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of modelling a new nonlinear multi-stable QZEH (quasi-zero
energy harvester) system for harvesting energy from vibrating mechanical devices. Detailed …

Design and control of a novel bionic mantis shrimp robot

G Chen, Y Xu, C Yang, X Yang, H Hu… - IEEE/ASME …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the development of a novel bionic robot, which is inspired by agile and
fast mantis shrimp in the ocean. The developed bionic mantis shrimp robot has ten rigid …

Time-sharing orbit jump and energy harvesting in nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvesters using a synchronous switch circuit

B Zhao, J Wang, G Hu, A Colombi, WH Liao… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonlinearity has enabled energy harvesting to advance toward higher power output and
broader bandwidth in monostable, bistable, and multistable systems. However, operating in …

Modeling and analysis of magnetically coupled piezoelectric dual beam with an annular potential energy function for broadband vibration energy harvesting

N Shao, Z Chen, X Wang, C Zhang, J Xu, X Xu… - Nonlinear …, 2023 - Springer
Conventional piezoelectric cantilever-based vibration energy harvesters have narrow
bandwidth. In this article, we develop a dual-beam piezoelectric energy harvester featuring …

Power expectation as a unified metric for the evaluation of vibration energy harvesters

C Saint-Martin, A Morel, L Charleux, E Roux… - … Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesters (VEHs) allow the extraction of ambient mechanical energy. The
proposed analysis focuses on bistable harvesters with Duffing nonlinearity. Bistable …

Design of a quad-stable piezoelectric energy harvester capable of programming the coordinates of equilibrium points

D Zou, K Chen, Z Rao, J Cao, WH Liao - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
In this study, a novel quad-stable energy harvester (QEH) is developed, in which its
coordinates of equilibrium points can be user-defined like programming. This programmable …

Vibration energy harvesting system with cyclically time-varying potential barrier

J Margielewicz, D Gąska, T Haniszewski, G Litak… - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Nonlinear kinetic energy harvesters are becoming more and more popular as well as
advanced and efficient. This paper presents the study of the dynamics of such a system in a …

Analysis and design of power and bandwidth of nonlinear vibration energy harvesters with hardening restoring forces

A Masuda - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a theoretical foundation for designing the power and bandwidth
performance of an electromagnetic nonlinear vibration energy harvester with a hardening …

Influence of the configuration of elastic and dissipative elements on the energy harvesting efficiency of a tunnel effect energy harvester

J Margielewicz, D Gąska, G Litak, D Yurchenko… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Paper presents computer simulations conducted to study the influence of the configuration of
an energy harvesting system with tunnel mechanical characteristics in terms of its energy …