Energy harvesting from human motion: Exploiting swing and shock excitations

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Ylli, K ^a   Hoffmann, D ^a   Willmann, A ^a   Becker, P ^a   Folkmer, B ^a   Manoli, Y ^a,b  

^a Institute for Micromachining and Information Technology (HSG IMIT)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; human motion; inductive conversion; shock excitation; shoe based generator; swing excitation

Indexed keywords

WEARABLE SENSORS;

ENERGY HARVESTER; HUMAN MOTIONS; KEY CONSTRAINTS; LOW POWER SENSOR; POWER DENSITIES; SHOCK EXCITATION; SHOE-BASED GENERATOR; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84921760572     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/24/2/025029     Document Type: Article

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