Internal Resonance Energy Harvesting

2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Qun Chen ◽  
Wen-An Jiang

Internal resonance is explored as a possible mechanism to enhance vibration-based energy harvesting. An electromagnetic device with snap-through nonlinearity is proposed as an archetype of an internal resonance energy harvester. Based on the equations governing the vibration measured from a stable equilibrium position, the method of multiple scales is applied to derive the amplitude–frequency response relationships of the displacement and the power in the first primary resonances with the two-to-one internal resonance. The amplitude–frequency response curves have two peaks bending to the left and the right, respectively. The numerical simulations support the analytical results. Then the averaged power is calculated under the Gaussian white noise, the narrow-band noise, the colored noise defined by a second-order filter, and the exponentially correlated noise. The results demonstrate numerically that the internal resonance design produces more power than other designs under the Gaussian white noise and the exponentially correlated noise. Besides, the internal resonance energy harvester can outperform the linear energy harvesters with the same natural frequencies and in the same size under Gaussian white noise.

Author(s):  
Wei Yang ◽  
Shahrzad Towfighian

Nonlinear energy harvesting has a better performance than linear resonators, because realistic ambient vibrations are spread over a wide frequency spectrum. We present a broadband nonlinear energy harvester with internal resonance induced by two resonators. Each resonator contains a cantilever beam with a magnet tip, and one is partially covered by piezoelectric material. The perturbation method of multiple scales is used to solve coupled partial different equations by applying internal resonance of ratio 2:1. The shooting method validates the analytical solutions of the frequency response and output voltage numerically. Output voltage for different excitation levels and distances are investigated. Simulations show the design, by applying internal resonance and nonlinearity, increases the bandwidth of frequency response.


Author(s):  
Julio Beatriz ◽  
Dumitru I. Caruntu

Abstract This paper investigates the frequency-amplitude response of electrostatically actuated Bio-MEMS clamped circular plates under superharmonic resonance of fourth order. The system consists of an elastic circular plate parallel to a ground plate. An AC voltage between the two plates will lead to vibrations of the elastic plate. Method of Multiple Scales, and Reduced Order Model with two modes of vibration are the two methods used in this work. The two methods show similar amplitude-frequency response, with an agreement in the low amplitudes. The difference between the two methods can be seen for larger amplitudes. The effects of voltage and damping on the amplitude-frequency response are reported. The steady-state amplitudes in the resonant zone increase with the increase of voltage and with the decrease of damping.


Author(s):  
Rodrigo T. Rocha ◽  
Jose M. Balthazar ◽  
Angelo M. Tusset ◽  
Vinicius Piccirillo ◽  
Frederic C. Janzen ◽  
...  

This work aims to study the modal coupling of a nonlinear two-degrees-of-freedom portal frame platform and a numerical analysis of the system with a nonlinear piezoelectric (PZT) material coupled to one of its columns, both externally base-excited. The nonlinear platform possesses two-to-one internal resonance between its two vibration modes and presenting the saturation phenomenon. The nonlinearities of the piezoelectric material are considered by a nonlinear mathematical relation. Here, it is considered an electro-dynamical shaker with harmonic output. The employed methodology to carry out the analysis of this work was: the application of the method of multiple scales to find the best configuration of the parameters, and to find some kind of phenomena due to the two-to-one internal resonance; several numerical simulations were carried out to optimize the energy harvesting through parametrical variations, bifurcation diagrams, stability diagrams. It will be analyzed: the influence of the nonlinearity of the piezoelectric material and of the electro-dynamical shaker on the energy harvesting. Results showed great influence of the nonlinearity of the material and using the electro-dynamical device. It was possible to gain considerably in energy harvesting and stability of the system.


Author(s):  
H. T. Zhu

This paper proposes a solution procedure to formulate an approximate joint probability density function (PDF) of a Duffing-type energy harvester system under Gaussian white noise. The joint PDF solution of displacement, velocity, and an electrical variable is governed by the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation. First, the FP equation is reduced to a lower-dimensional FP equation only about displacement and velocity by a state-space-split (SSS) method. The stationary joint PDF of displacement and velocity can be solved exactly. Then, the joint PDF of displacement, velocity, and the electrical variable can be approximated by the product of the obtained exact PDF and the conditional Gaussian PDF of the electrical variable. A parametric study is further conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed solution procedure. The study considers weak nonlinearity, strong nonlinearity, high excitation level, and a bistable oscillator. Comparison with the simulated results shows that the proposed solution procedure is effective in obtaining the joint PDF of the energy harvester system in the examined examples.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Shu-Li Sun ◽  
Kai-Hui Ding ◽  
Jing-Yan Xue

For the multisensor linear discrete time-invariant stochastic control systems with different measurement matrices and correlated noises, the centralized measurement fusion white noise estimators are presented by the linear minimum variance criterion under the condition that noise input matrix is full column rank. They have the expensive computing burden due to the high-dimension extended measurement matrix. To reduce the computing burden, the weighted measurement fusion white noise estimators are presented. It is proved that weighted measurement fusion white noise estimators have the same accuracy as the centralized measurement fusion white noise estimators, so it has global optimality. It can be applied to signal processing in oil seismic exploration. A simulation example for Bernoulli-Gaussian white noise deconvolution filter verifies the effectiveness.


Author(s):  
Dumitru I. Caruntu ◽  
Christopher Reyes

Abstract This work deals with amplitude frequency response of MEMS cantilever resonators undergoing superharmonic resonance of third order. The cantilever resonator is parallel to a ground plate and under alternating current (AC) voltage that excites the cantilever into vibrations. The driving frequency of the AC voltage is near one sixth of the first natural frequency of the cantilever beam resulting into superharmonic resonance of third order. The cantilever beam is modeled using Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The electrostatic force is modeled using Palmer’s formula to include the fringe effect. In order to investigate the amplitude frequency behavior of the system reduced order models (ROMs) are developed. Three methods are used to solve these ROMs they are 1) the method of multiple scales (MMS) for ROM with one mode of vibration, 2) homotopy analysis method (HAM) for ROM with one mode of vibration, and 3) direct numerical integration for 2 modes of vibration Reduced Order Model (2T ROM) producing time responses of the tip of the cantilever resonator. In this work the limitations of MMS and HAM are highlighted when considering large voltage values i.e hard excitations. For large voltage values MMS and HAM cannot accurately predict the amplitude frequency response; the results from 2T ROM time responses disagree significantly with the MMS and HAM solutions. The effect of voltage on the frequency response is investigated. As the voltage values in the system increase the responses shift to lower frequencies and larger amplitudes.


Author(s):  
Dumitru I. Caruntu ◽  
Bin Liu

This paper deals with amplitude-frequency response of electrostatic nanotube nanotweezer device system. Soft alternating current (AC) of frequency near natural frequency actuates the nanotubes. This leads the system into parametric resonance. The Method of Multiple Scales (MMS) in which the nonlinear electrostatic and van der Waals forces are expanded in Taylor series is used to compare two expansions, one up to third power and the other up to fifth power. The frequency response of the system is reported and the effects of van der Waals forces, electrostatic forces, and damping forces on the frequency response are investigated.


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