Exploiting benefits of a periodically-forced nonlinear oscillator for energy harvesting from ambient vibrations

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue , 2011, Pages 819-822

  Trigona, C ^a   Dumas, N ^a   Latorre, L ^a   Ando B ^b   Baglio, S ^b   Nouet, P ^a  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Nonlinear dynamics; Wide spectrum vibrations

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; BISTABLES; EXTERNAL ENERGY SOURCES; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; POWER LINES; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE; WIDE-SPECTRUM VIBRATIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84857159728     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.12.201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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