Impact of COVID-19 on IoT adoption in healthcare, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, transportation and industrial IoT

M Umair, MA Cheema, O Cheema, H Li, H Lu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 has disrupted normal life and has enforced a substantial change in the policies,
priorities and activities of individuals, organisations and governments. These changes are …

Sampling methods for solving Bayesian model updating problems: A tutorial

A Lye, A Cicirello, E Patelli - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
This tutorial paper reviews the use of advanced Monte Carlo sampling methods in the
context of Bayesian model updating for engineering applications. Markov Chain Monte …

An efficient and robust sampler for Bayesian inference: Transitional ensemble Markov chain Monte Carlo

A Lye, A Cicirello, E Patelli - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Bayesian inference is a popular approach towards parameter identification in engineering
problems. Such technique would involve iterative sampling methods which are often robust …

Parametric study and shape optimization of piezoelectric energy harvesters by isogeometric analysis and kriging metamodeling

P Peralta, RO Ruiz, S Natarajan… - Journal of Sound and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Piezo-electric energy harvesters (PEHs) are widely used to recycle waste vibrations for
powering small electronic devices. In this work, the performance of PEHs of non …

A hybrid piezoelectric device combining a tri-stable energy harvester with an elastic base for low-orbit vibration energy harvesting enhancement

G Wang, Y Ju, WH Liao, Z Zhao, Y Li… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
How to efficiently harvest the low-orbit vibration energy over a wide frequency range is one
main challenge of the piezoelectric energy harvester. In this paper, combining the …

Vibration control with piezoelectric elements: The indirect measurement of the modal capacitance and coupling factor

M Berardengo, S Manzoni, J Høgsberg… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The knowledge of the modal capacitance and electro-mechanical coupling factor is
essential for a proper design of systems with embedded piezoelectric transducers and …

Electromechanical properties identification for groups of piezoelectric energy harvester based on Bayesian inference

P Peralta, RO Ruiz, H Rappel, SPA Bordas - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A framework that allows the use of well-known dynamic estimators to infer the
electromechanical properties in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (PEHs) is presented here …

On the uncertainty identification for linear dynamic systems using stochastic embedding approach with gaussian mixture models

R Orellana, R Carvajal, P Escárate, JC Agüero - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In control and monitoring of manufacturing processes, it is key to understand model
uncertainty in order to achieve the required levels of consistency, quality, and economy …

Bayesian model class selection of nonlinear constitutive relationships for piezoelectric energy harvesters with small set of observations

A Poblete, RO Ruiz, G Jia - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The demand for efficient energy harvesting from vibratory environments has notably
increased with the proliferation of piezoelectric devices. However, mismatches between …

Uncertainty analysis of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters using a finite element level-based maximum entropy approach

XQ Wang, Y Liao, MP Mignolet - … -ASME Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Quantifying effects of system-wide uncertainties (ie, affecting structural, piezoelectric, and/or
electrical components) in the analysis and design of piezoelectric vibration energy …