dc.contributor.author | Chew, ZJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Ruan, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-31T10:58:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents a wireless sensor system (WSS) powered by a strain energy harvester (SEH) through the introduction of an adaptive and energy-aware interface for enhanced performance under variable vibration conditions. The interface is realized by an adaptive power management module (PMM) for maximum power transfer under different loading conditions and an energy-aware interface (EAI) which manages the energy flow from the storage capacitor to the WSS for
dealing with the mismatch between energy demanded and energy harvested. The focus is to realize high harvested power and high efficiency of the system under variable vibration conditions, and an aircraft wing structure is taken as a study scenario. The SEH powered WSS was tested under different peak-to-peak strain loadings from 300 to 600 µε and vibrational frequencies from 2 to 10 Hz to verify the system performance on energy generation and distribution, system efficiency, and capability of powering a custom-developed WSS. Comparative studies of using different circuit configurations with and without the interface were also performed to verify the advantages of the introduced interface.
Experimental results showed that under the applied loading of 600 µε at 10 Hz, the SEH generates 0.5 mW of power without the interface while having around 670 % increase to 3.38 mW with the interface, which highlights the value of the interface. The implemented system has an overall efficiency of 70 to 80 %, a long active time of more than 1 s, and duty cycle of up to 11.85 % for vibration measurement under all the tested conditions. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K., through the project En-ComE-Energy Harvesting Powered Wireless Monitoring Systems Based on Integrated Smart Composite Structures and Energy-Aware Architecture under Grant EP/K020331/1. All data are provided in full in the results section of this paper. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 1 June 2017 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/TII.2017.2710313 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27742 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to use this material for any other purposes must be obtained from the IEEE by sending a request to pubs-permissions@ieee.org | |
dc.subject | adaptive power management | en_GB |
dc.subject | energy-aware interface | en_GB |
dc.subject | piezoelectric energy harvesting | en_GB |
dc.subject | strain energy harvester | en_GB |
dc.subject | wireless sensor node | en_GB |
dc.title | Strain Energy Harvesting Powered Wireless Sensor System Using Adaptive and Energy-Aware Interface for Enhanced Performance | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1551-3203 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IEEE via the DOI in this record. | |
dc.identifier.journal | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | en_GB |