Autonomous Resonance-Tuning Mechanism for Environmental Adaptive Energy Harvesting

Dong Gyu Lee, Joonchul Shin, Hyun Soo Kim, Sunghoon Hur, Shuailing Sun, Ji Soo Jang, Sangmi Chang, Inki Jung, Sahn Nahm, Heemin Kang, Chong-Yun Kang, Sangtae Kim, Jeong Min Baik, Il Ryeol Yoo, Kyung Hoon Cho, Hyun Cheol Song

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Abstract

An innovative autonomous resonance-tuning (ART) energy harvester is reported that utilizes adaptive clamping systems driven by intrinsic mechanical mechanisms without outsourcing additional energy. The adaptive clamping system modulates the natural frequency of the harvester's main beam (MB) by adjusting the clamping position of the MB. The pulling force induced by the resonance vibration of the tuning beam (TB) provides the driving force for operating the adaptive clamp. The ART mechanism is possible by matching the natural frequencies of the TB and clamped MB. Detailed evaluations are conducted on the optimization of the adaptive clamp tolerance and TB design to increase the pulling force. The energy harvester exhibits an ultrawide resonance bandwidth of over 30 Hz in the commonly accessible low vibration frequency range (<100 Hz) owing to the ART function. The practical feasibility is demonstrated by evaluating the ART performance under both frequency and acceleration-variant conditions and powering a location tracking sensor.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2205179
JournalAdvanced Science
Volume10
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023 Jan 25

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
D.‐G.L. and J.S. contributed equally to this work. Development Project (KETEP) grant funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Republic of Korea (Development of wideband piezoelectric energy harvesting for standalone low‐power smart sensor, Project No. 2018201010636A), the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) grant by the Korean government (MSIP) (No. CAP‐17‐04‐KRISS), and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (2V09113, 2E30410). H.‐C.S., H.S.K., and D.‐G.L would like to acknowledge the support from the National R&D Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF‐2021R1C1C1009100, NRF‐2020M3H4A3105594). I.‐R.Y. and K.‐H.C. acknowledges the support from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF‐2019R1I1A3A01058105, NRF‐2018R1A6A1A03025761) and the Ministry of Science and ICT (Grand Information Technology Research Center support program) (IITP‐2022‐2020‐0‐01612). S. S. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52275122) and China Scholarship Council (File No. 202106250074).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.

Keywords

  • adaptive clamps
  • autonomous resonance-tuning
  • energy harvesting
  • piezoelectric
  • tuning beam

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Materials Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
  • General Engineering
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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