Extremum seeking control of a self-tunable variable-inertia vibration energy harvester: Modeling and experimental validation

EM Abdelazim, YH Anis, ML Shaltout - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Broadband vibration energy harvesters have been extensively investigated as clean and
sustainable power sources for low-power applications installed in harsh and off-grid …

A direction-adaptive ultra-low frequency energy harvester with an aligning turntable

R Sun, H Ma, S Zhou, Z Li, L Cheng - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultra-low frequency vibrations in the ambient environment contain abundant sustainable
energy. However, their time-varying and random direction nature poses a prominent …

A self-tuning vibration energy harvester with variable loads and maximum allowable displacement

SH Kamali, M Moallem… - Smart Materials and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a constrained model-free tuning algorithm for vibration energy
harvesters. Ideally, a vibration energy harvester should operate such that it can absorb the …

A self-tuning resonator for vibration energy harvesting

NA Aboulfotoh, MH Arafa, SM Megahed - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2013 - Elsevier
This work is concerned with developing a vibration-based energy harvester with a tunable
natural frequency. The harvester is designed to automatically adjust its own natural …

On adjusting the rotary inertia of a cantilever-type energy harvester for wideband operation

P Ibrahim, O Nassar, M Arafa, Y Anis - Procedia engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Inertial vibration energy harvesters are effective only when they operate at their natural
frequencies. A slight deviation from operation at resonance conditions leads to a substantial …

On a spring-assisted multi-stable hybrid-integrated vibration energy harvester for ultra-low-frequency excitations

X Yang, SK Lai, C Wang, JM Wang, H Ding - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a spring-assisted multi-stable nonlinear vibration energy harvesting
technique by integrating two working mechanisms (ie, electromagnetic and triboelectric …

A tunable kinetic energy harvester with dynamic over range protection

IN Ayala-Garcia, D Zhu, MJ Tudor… - Smart materials and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the development and implementation of a self-powered control system
that autonomously adapts the resonant frequency of an electromagnetic vibration-based …

[HTML][HTML] On a self-tuning sliding-mass electromagnetic energy harvester

M Bukhari, A Malla, H Kim, O Barry, L Zuo - AIP Advances, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Prior research has investigated resonators capable of self-tuning through the use of a sliding
mass. This passive tuning mechanism can be utilized to improve vibration control; however …

Magnetic frequency tuning of a multimodal vibration energy harvester

S Bouhedma, Y Zheng, F Lange, D Hohlfeld - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a novel vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvester, capable of
collecting power at multiple operating frequencies and autonomously adapting itself to the …

A two-variable extremum seeking controller with application to self-tuned vibration energy harvesting∗

SH Kamali, M Moallem… - Smart Materials and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A new control strategy for sliding-mode extremum seeking in two-variables is proposed in
this study. The controller converts the two-variable search problem into a single-variable …