A magnetically sprung generator for energy harvesting applications

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 415-424

  Constantinou, Peter ^a   Mellor, Phil H ^b   Wilcox, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic generator model; harvesting; magnetically sprung; nonlinear suspension; vibration

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR MAGNETS; AVERAGE POWER; BROADBAND RESPONSE; EFFECTIVENESS METRICS; ELECTRICAL DOMAINS; ELECTROMAGNETIC GENERATORS; JUMP PHENOMENON; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION; MAGNETICALLY SPRUNG; NONLINEAR HARDENING; NONLINEAR SUSPENSIONS; POWER DENSITIES; TIME-STEP MODELS; VIBRATION; VIBRATION ENERGIES; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; HARVESTING; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84860668957     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2012.2188834     Document Type: Article

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