Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

Pendulum-based vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, transducer integration, and applications

T Wang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting is a promising approach to provide wireless sensors and
portable electronics with sustainable power by converting ambient kinetic energy into …

In-situ wave energy harvesting for unmanned marine devices: A review

F Zeng, T Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
It is promising and interesting to supply unmanned marine devices (UMDs) such as data
buoys, unmanned surface vessels, and unmanned underwater vehicles with sustainable …

Design, modeling and experiments of a novel biaxial-pendulum vibration energy harvester

H Lou, T Wang, S Zhu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Pendulum-based vibration energy harvesting is a promising technology to supply energy for
floating buoys and small ocean vehicles. However, the energy harvester with a uniaxial …

Self-powered wireless sensor system for water monitoring based on low-frequency electromagnetic-pendulum energy harvester

M Li, Y Zhang, K Li, Y Zhang, K Xu, X Liu, S Zhong… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Using wireless sensor network technology to monitor water quality has the advantages of
high real-time and low cost, which is very helpful for preventing water pollution. However …

Development of an electromagnetic energy harvester for ultra-low frequency pitch vibration of unmanned marine devices

T Wang, H Lv, X Wang - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Pitch vibrations can be commonly observed in unmanned marine devices under wave
excitation, but there is relatively little research on harvesting the energy from the pitch …

Bandwidth enhancement of a gimbaled-pendulum vibration energy harvester using spatial multi-stable mechanism

T Wang, H Lou, S Zhu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting based on pendulums is a promising approach for low-frequency
excitation and large-scale application. Conventional design is to match the natural …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low frequency multidirectional harvester for wind turbines

C Castellano-Aldave, A Carlosena, X Iriarte, A Plaza - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose, and demonstrate through a prototype, a completely novel device
able to harvest mechanical energy from the multidirectional vibrations in a wind turbine, and …

Design, modeling and performance analysis of a deployable WEC for ocean robots

W Chen, B Zhou, H Huang, Y Lu, S Li, F Gao - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Ocean robots have important application value in both military and civil fields. However,
ocean robots powered by batteries need to be launched and recovered frequently during …

Analytical modeling and experimental verification of a multi-DOF spherical pendulum electromagnetic energy harvester

X Wang, T Wang, H Lv, H Wang, F Zeng - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Low-frequency vibration energy harvesting is a promising technology for providing floating
buoys and small marine robots with sustainable energy from ocean waves. A spherical …