Combining sustainable stochastic resonance with high-energy orbit oscillation to broaden rotational bandwidth of energy harvesting from tire

The recent potential benefit of nonlinearity has been applying in order to improve the effectiveness of energy harvesting devices. For instance, at relatively high excitation levels, both low and high-energy responses can coexist for the same parameter combinations in a hardening type Duffing oscillator, and this provides a wider bandwidth and a higher energy harvesting effectiveness under periodic excitations. However, frequency or amplitude sweeps of the excitation must be used in order to reach a desirable high-energy orbit, and this gives a limitation on practical implementation. This paper presents a stiffness tunable nonlinear vibrational energy harvester which contains a moving magnetic end mass attached to a cantilever beam, whose nonlinearity emerges from the interaction forces with two neighboring permanent magnets facing with opposing poles. The motivating hypothesis has been that the jump from the low-energy orbit to the high-energy orbit can be triggered by tuning the stiffness of the system without changing the frequency or the amplitude of the excitation. Theoretical investigations show a methodology for tuning stiffness, and experimental tests have validated that the proposed method can be used to trigger a jump to the desirable state, and hereby this can broaden the bandwidth of the energy harvester.

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Efficiency and effectiveness of stabilization control of high-energy orbit for wideband piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting

Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems XII ◽

10.1117/12.2296584 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Norihiko Kitamura ◽

Arata Masuda

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

High Energy ◽

Vibration Energy ◽

Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽

Stabilization Control ◽

Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽

Energy Orbit ◽

Piezoelectric Vibration

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Stabilising high energy orbit oscillations by the utilisation of centrifugal effects for rotating-tyre-induced energy harvesting

Applied Physics Letters ◽

10.1063/1.5019907 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 112 (14) ◽

pp. 143901 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Yunshun Zhang ◽

Rencheng Zheng ◽

Kimihiko Nakano ◽

Matthew P. Cartmell

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

High Energy ◽

Energy Orbit

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Stabilisation of the high-energy orbit for a non-linear energy harvester with variable damping

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science ◽

10.1177/0954406215590169 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 230 (12) ◽

pp. 2003-2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Dongxu Su ◽

Rencheng Zheng ◽

Kimihiko Nakano ◽

Matthew P Cartmell

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Energy Harvester ◽

High Energy ◽

Low Energy ◽

Additional Energy ◽

Non Linear ◽

In Series ◽

Improved Performance ◽

Non Linear Oscillator ◽

Energy Orbit

The non-linearity of a hardening-type oscillator provides a wider bandwidth and a higher energy harvesting capability under harmonic excitations. Also, both low- and high-energy responses can coexist for the same parameter combinations at relatively high excitation levels. However, if the oscillator’s response happens to coincide with the low-energy orbit then the improved performance achieved by the non-linear oscillator over that of its linear counterpart, could be impaired. This is therefore the main motivation for stabilisation of the high-energy orbit. In the present work, a schematic harvester design is considered consisting of a mass supported by two linear springs connected in series, each with a parallel damper, and a third-order non-linear spring. The equivalent linear stiffness and damping coefficients of the oscillator are derived through variation of the damper element. From this adjustment the variation of the equivalent stiffness generates a corresponding shift in the frequency–amplitude response curve, and this triggers a jump from the low-energy orbit to stabilise the high-energy orbit. This approach has been seen to require little additional energy supply for the adjustment and stabilisation, compared with that needed for direct stiffness tuning by mechanical means. Overall energy saving is of particular importance for energy harvesting applications. Subsequent results from simulation and experimentation confirm that the proposed method can be used to trigger a jump to the desirable state, thereby introducing a beneficial addition to the performance of the non-linear hardening-type energy harvester that improves overall efficiency and broadens the bandwidth.

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A bistable piezoelectric oscillator with an elastic magnifier for energy harvesting enhancement

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures ◽

10.1177/1045389x16657419 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 392-407 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Guang-Qing Wang ◽

Wei-Hsin Liao

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Effective Means ◽

High Energy ◽

Open Circuit ◽

Lumped Parameter Model ◽

Vibration Level ◽

Restoring Force ◽

Output Displacement ◽

Piezoelectric Harvester ◽

Energy Orbit

Bistable oscillator has been recognized as an effective means by which to improve the linear resonant energy harvesting performance for its unique double-well restoring force potential. As oscillating in a high-energy orbit, the oscillator should be located at a distance from one stable to the other with a much higher velocity or acceleration. However, the vibration level in environment would be too low to provide the oscillator with a larger velocity to overcome the potential well barrier. This article is focused on the enhancement of a bistable piezoelectric oscillator with an elastic magnifier for high-energy orbit harvesting. The elastic magnifier positioned between the bistable piezoelectric oscillator and the base is to amplify the base vibration level in order to provide the bistable piezoelectric harvester with large movement. A 2-degree-of-freedom nonlinear lumped-parameter model of the bistable piezoelectric harvester with an elastic magnifier (bistable piezoelectric harvester + elastic magnifier) is derived to exhibit the large-amplitude periodic oscillation behaviors. With the comparison of the electromechanical responses obtained from theory and experiment, the results show that the output displacement, tip velocity, and harvesting voltage under open-circuit condition of the bistable piezoelectric harvester + elastic magnifier configuration are 15 mm, 1500 mm s−1, and 13 V, respectively, while those of the only bistable piezoelectric harvester configuration are 1 mm, 120 mm s−1, and 2 V under the excitation level of 8.69 m s−2 and frequency of 16 Hz. It is verified that the bistable piezoelectric harvester with an elastic magnifier can generate larger output performance than that of the bistable piezoelectric harvester without elastic magnifier at several excitation frequencies and levels.

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High-energy Orbit Sliding Mode Control for Nonlinear Energy Harvesting

10.21203/rs.3.rs-203705/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ying Zhang ◽

Changshun Ding ◽

Jie Wang ◽

Junyi Cao

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Sliding Mode Control ◽

Health Monitoring ◽

Control Method ◽

Sliding Mode ◽

High Energy ◽

Restoring Force ◽

Mode Control ◽

Solution Region ◽

Energy Orbit

Abstract Vibration energy harvesting has extensive application prospects in many significant occasions, such as mechanical structure health monitoring, vehicle tire pressure monitoring, IoT devices and human health monitoring. The nonlinearity is an effective method to improve the energy harvesting efficiency where there are low- and high-energy orbits in the multi-solution region of the system. The harvested power will be increased significantly when the system is guided from the low-energy orbit to the high-energy orbit. However, previous research mainly focuses on the theoretical and numerical investigation of controlling strategy, but the feasibility of control methods has not been verified experimentally. This paper proposes a high-energy sliding mode control method through rotatable magnets actuated by micro-motor. The electromechanical model of mono-stable and bi-stable systems with the identified nonlinear restoring force is established to design a sliding mode control algorithm for enhancing the energy harvesting performance. Simulation and experiment results demonstrate that the rotatable magnets with sliding mode control have a positive influence on reaching the high-energy orbit for both mono-stable and bi-stable systems within the multi-solution region. Moreover, the rotatable magnets method with a sliding mode control actuates the small magnets in the system for a short time with little consumption of energy. This research has provided a practical application of high-energy orbit control for improvement of the energy harvesting.

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