Modelling and verification of nonlinear electromechanical coupling in micro-scale kinetic electromagnetic energy harvesters

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSokolov, Andrii
dc.contributor.authorMallick, Dhiman
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Saibal
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Michael P.
dc.contributor.authorBlokhina, Elena
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:40:43Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:40:43Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-13
dc.date.updated2020-04-01T12:35:42Z
dc.description.abstractElectromechanical coupling in kinetic energy harvesters is the key aspect of these devices that ensures an effective energy conversion process. When modelling and designing such devices, it is necessary to incorporate electromechanical coupling correctly since it will determine the amount of energy that will be converted during its operation. As the engineering community prefers compact (lumped) models of such devices, the conventional choice of the lumped model for the electromagnetic type of electromechanical coupling is linear damping, proportional to the velocity of the mechanical resonator in a harvester, leading to the idea of maximizing the velocity in order to improve the energy conversion process. In this paper, we show that electromechanical coupling in electromagnetic kinetic energy harvesters is inherently nonlinear and requires a number of aspects to be taken into account if one wants to optimize a device. We show that the proposed model, which is based on first principles of electromagnetics, can be reduced to a nonlinear lumped model that is particularly convenient for analysis and design. The modelling approach and the resulting lumped model are verified using two MEMS electromagnetic harvesters operating over a range of frequencies from 300 to 500 Hz (Harvester A) and from 50 to 70 Hz (Harvester B) generating from mV (Harvester A) to few volts (Harvester B) of RMS voltage, respectively. The proposed modelling approach is not limited to energy harvesters but can also be applied to magnetic sensors or other MEMS devices that utilise electromagnetic transduction.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSokolov, A., Mallick, D., Roy, S., Kennedy, M. P. and Blokhina, E. (2020) 'Modelling and verification of nonlinear electromechanical coupling in micro-scale kinetic electromagnetic energy harvesters'. IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers, 67 (2), pp. 565-577. doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2019.2938421en
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/TCSI.2019.2938421en
dc.identifier.endpage577en
dc.identifier.issn1549-8328
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papersen
dc.identifier.startpage565en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9806
dc.identifier.volume67en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Investigator Programme/13/IA/1979/IE/Advanced Frequency Synthesis Informed by Nonlinear Dynamics/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2077/IE/CONNECT: The Centre for Future Networks & Communications/en
dc.relation.urihttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8836656
dc.rights© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.en
dc.subjectComputer aided designen
dc.subjectElectromagnetic transductionen
dc.subjectLumped modellingen
dc.subjectMEMS interfaceen
dc.subjectMEMS kinetic energy harvestingen
dc.subjectMixed-domain modellingen
dc.subjectModelling and simulationsen
dc.subjectNumerical methodsen
dc.titleModelling and verification of nonlinear electromechanical coupling in micro-scale kinetic electromagnetic energy harvestersen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
11043.pdf
Size:
5.43 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Accepted version
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Tyndall National Institute - Journal Articles