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Model-based design and test of vibration energy harvester for aircraft application

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This paper deals with a development process of a vibration energy harvesting device in aircraft applications. The vibration energy harvester uses ambient energy of mechanical vibration and it provides an autonomous source of energy for wireless sensors or autonomous applications. This application presents a complex engineering problem and the vibration energy harvester consists of precise mechanical part, electro-mechanical converter, electronics and a powered application. It can be perceive as a mechatronic system and a mechatronic approach was used for development of our vibration energy harvester. An essential step of development process is simulation modeling which is based on mechatronic approach. Presented model-based design of vibration energy harvester is very useful during development process and the whole development process of the autonomous energy source is presented in this paper. The main aim of the paper is an introduction of our development methodology and our approach is presented on a sample of the vibration energy harvester for aircraft applications under project ESPOSA.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been funded by the European Commission within the FP7 project “Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft | ESPOSA”, Grant Agreement No. ACP1-GA-2011-284859-ESPOSA. And additional support by European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the research project NETME Centre under the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation. Reg. Nr. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0002, id code: ED0002/01/01, project name: NETME Centre—New Technologies for Mechanical Engineering.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 2896/2, 616 69, Brno, Czech Republic

    Zdenek Hadas & Vladislav Singule

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 8, 616 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Vojtech Vetiska & Rostislav Huzlik

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Hadas, Z., Vetiska, V., Huzlik, R. et al. Model-based design and test of vibration energy harvester for aircraft application. Microsyst Technol 20, 831–843 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-013-2062-y

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