Energy Harvesting Publications

In this section you will find publications that are the result of collaboration between scientists from around the world.

  • 18 January 2021

Piezoelectric wind energy harvesting subjected to the conjunction of vortex-induced vibration and galloping: comprehensive parametric study and optimization

Abstract: This study performs a comprehensive parametric study and optimization of a piezoelectric wind energy harvester subjected to the…

  • 25 November 2020

Dynamic response of the spherical pendulum subjected to horizontal Lissajous excitation

Abstract: This paper examines the oscillations of a spherical pendulum with horizontal Lissajous excitation. The pendulum has two degrees…

  • 18 August 2020

Robust design optimization of a nonlinear monostable energy harvester with uncertainties.

Abstract: Based on the improved interval extension, a robust optimization method for nonlinear monostable energy harvesters with uncertainties is…

  • 18 August 2020

Enhancement of harvesting capability of coupled nonlinear energy harvesters through high energy orbits.

Abstract: Mechanical coupling in similar energy harvesters has the potential to enhance their broadband harvesting capability. However, often the…

  • 30 July 2020

Nonlinear Response Identification of an Assymetric Bistable Harvester Excited at Different Bias Angles by Multiscale Entropy and Recurrence Plot.

Abstract: Due to their high sensitivity to excitations with low intensity, bistable energy harvesting systems have received significant attention….

  • 3 July 2020

Energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations using multiple magnetostrictive/piezoelectric composite transducers

Abstract: This paper describes an energy harvester employing multiple Terfenol-D/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3– PbTiO3/Terfenol-D laminate magnetoelectric transducers to convert ambient mechanical vibration…

  • 6 February 2020

Modelling of Electromagnetic Energy Harvester with Rotational Pendulum Using Mechanical Vibrations to Scavenge Electrical Energy

Abstract: A concept of non-linear electromagnetic system with the rotational magnetic pendulum for energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations was…

  • 17 January 2020

Response analysis of the nonlinear vibration energy harvester with an uncertain parameter.

In this paper, the Chebyshev polynomial approximation is firstly utilized to analyze the dynamical characteristics of the nonlinear vibration…

  • 16 January 2020

Simulation of Synchronized – Switching Method Energy Harvester Including Accurate Piezoceramic Nonlinear Behavior

Synchronized-switching techniques have significantly enhanced the harvested energy from semipassive and active surrounding ambient mechanical vibration harvesters. They have…

  • 22 October 2019

Dynamical response of a bistable system with clearance

We study the dynamics of an elastic inverted pendulum with an horizontal excitation and imperfect clamping. Complex nonlinear responses…

  • 22 October 2019

Energy harvesting from an oscillating vertical piezoelectric cantilever with clearance

Vibration energy harvesting is proposed for a nonlinear electromechanical system. A mechanical resonator, which is realized as an inverted…

  • 22 October 2019

Complex response of an oscillating vertical cantilever with clearance

Krystian Łygas, Piotr Wolszczak, Grzegorz Litak, Paweł Stączek Meccanica September 2019, Volume 54, Issue 11–12, pp 1689–1702 Abstract We…

  • 22 October 2019

Broadband frequency response of a nonlinear resonator with clearance for energy harvesting

Krystian Łygas, Piotr Wolszczak, Grzegorz Litak MATEC Web of Conferences 148, 12003 (2018) Abstract We examine the response of…

  • 22 October 2019

Analysis of dynamics of a vertical cantilever in rotary coupling to the moving frame with movement limiters

Piotr Wolszczak, Grzegorz Litak , Krystian Łygas Me MATEC Web of Conferences 241, 01021 (2018) Abstract The efficiency of…

  • 21 October 2019

Dynamics identification of a piezoelectric vibrational energy harvester by image analysis with a high speed camera

Piotr Wolszczak, Krystian Łygas, Grzegorz Litak. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 107 (2018) 43–52 Abstract This study investigates dynamic…

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