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Vibration Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Elements by Multi-switch Circuit with Adaptive Inductance

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Mechanical vibration energy harvesting using multi-switch circuit with adaptive inductance is a new method based on impedance matching between electrical circuit and mechanical vibrating system in order to maximize the harvested energy. Considering a vibrating piezoelectric element in parallel with a load resistance, the whole converted energy is not dissipated or flowed into the load resistance and a remarkable portion of this energy is stored on the internal capacitor of the piezoelectric. By connecting the vibrating piezoelectric to a special interface circuit, approximately the whole stored energy portion on the piezoelectric flows into the circuit. The proposed interface circuit contains a set of inductors in series with electronic switches that controlled by a microcontroller which always provides resonance condition in the designed frequency range. In the proposed technique, for a simulated piezoelectric generator with a constant current source in the design frequency range of 100 to 700 Hz, the harvested power of numerical analysis is 2 to 10 times (depending on frequency) more than standard method (simple resistive circuit). Harvested power in the exprimental test for a cantilever piezoelectric plate in the design frequency of 100 to 350 Hz, is 4.5 times more than standard method.

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    Salar Hatam, Saber Mohammadi & Akram Khodayari

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Salar Hatam received hid B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. His research interests are energy harvesting, mechatronic systems and vibration control.

Saber Mohammadi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in the smart systems technology based on multiphysics coupling, from INSA-Lyon, Lyon, France, in 2008. He is currently an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. His research interests focus on design of Mechatronic systems, sensors and actuators technology, vibration based condition monitoring and smart material applications.

Akram Khodayari received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in harvesting energy from INSA-Lyon, Lyon, France, in 2009. She is currently an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. Her research interests are the energy harvesting, combined electro-magneto-thermomechanical response of active material systems and vibration control.

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Hatam, S., Mohammadi, S. & Khodayari, A. Vibration Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Elements by Multi-switch Circuit with Adaptive Inductance. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 19, 3657–3665 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0101-x

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