Wearable assistive, rehabilitative, and augmentative devices currently require bulky power
supplies, often making these tools more of a burden than an asset. This work introduces a …

Linear machines are currently considered as viable candidates for direct-drive wave and
free-piston energy converters. This paper is devoted to an approach based on a magnetic …

Energy harvesting, as an alternative power source, is being widely discussed thanks to
emerging technologies like IoT, Industry 4.0, or WSNs. This paper deals with a piezoelectric …

This paper reports a novel piezoelectric energy harvester incorporated on a waistbelt for
power generation from waist movements. The device is composed of multiple piezoelectric …

This paper presents a rotational energy harvester using a brushless dc (BLdc) generator to
harvest ambient energy for quadcopter in order to prolong it flight duration. For a …

Human motion energy harvester can offer clean and continuous power, and therefore plays
an important role in powering mobile devices, which suffer from short standby time because …

The development of a novel hybrid energy harvester for scavenging power around human
waistline is presented. The harvester is composed of mm-scale electromagnetic coils and …

This paper presents a piezoelectric energy harvesting device that generates electrical power
from knee motion during human gait. The device is composed of two MEMS-based …

The concept of energy harvesting has been in the focus of research for more than two
decades now and with the continuous device miniaturization and reduction in power …

This paper presents a linear generator for human motion energy harvesting using dual
Halbach magnet arrays. A novel Halbach array with non-uniform magnet blocks is proposed …