Reversible Nonlinear Energy Harvester Tuned by Tilting and Enhanced by Nonlinear Circuits

• Published in: IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 2174 - 2184
• Main Authors: Yang, Zhengbao, Zu, Jean, Xu, Zhuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Broad bandwidth; Couplings; Energy harvesting; Force; Hysteresis; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mathematical analysis; multiple scales; Nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear vibration; Nonlinearity; perturbation method; piezoelectric; Rods; Softening; synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI); Vibration; Vibrations

Nonlinear vibration is capable of effectively extending the frequency bandwidth of energy harvesters. Either hardening or softening nonlinearity has been used in various designs to achieve broad-bandwidth energy harvesting. In this paper, we propose a new method to achieve reversible hysteretic resp...