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OPTIMIZATION OF THE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PARAMETERS OF A VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTER

Clementino, M. A. ; Brennan, M. J. ; Silva, S. da ;

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The use of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices to power sensor networks and electronic equipment has become popular research topic. For practical use of the energy converted by these transducers conversion of the alternating current (AC) produced to direct current (DC) is generally required. This is normally done by using rectifier circuits. One important issue to overcome is to be able to design a device able to produce the highest power possible. To optimize the coupled mechanical-electrical system a coupled model is required, including the beam structure, piezoelectric element and rectifier circuit, using the same computational software. Thus, for a specific level of mechanical vibration, the maximum power harvested can be obtained by numerical optimization of the beam and piezoelectric geometry and parameters of resistive load, capacitive filter and diodes. All simulations are carried out using Matlab and the optimization is carried out by a sequential quadratic program (SQP) method. The results show which characteristics are important to consider and to modify in order to improve the performance of the power harvesting device.

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DOI: 10.5151/meceng-wccm2012-16681

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Clementino, M. A.; Brennan, M. J.; Silva, S. da; "OPTIMIZATION OF THE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PARAMETERS OF A VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTER", p. 189-199 . In: In Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics [= Blucher Mechanical Engineering Proceedings, v. 1, n. 1]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2014.
ISSN 2358-0828, DOI 10.5151/meceng-wccm2012-16681

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