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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

System Implementation Trade-Offs for Low-Speed Rotational Variable Reluctance Energy Harvesters.

Ye Xu, Sebastian Bader, Michele Magno, Philipp Mayer, Bengt Oelmann

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Ye XuDepartment of Electronics Design, Mid Sweden University, 85170 Sundsvall, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3222-7165
Sebastian BaderDepartment of Electronics Design, Mid Sweden University, 85170 Sundsvall, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8382-0359
Michele MagnoDepartment of Electronics Design, Mid Sweden University, 85170 Sundsvall, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0368-8923
Philipp MayerDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4554-7937
Bengt OelmannDepartment of Electronics Design, Mid Sweden University, 85170 Sundsvall, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9572-3639

Funding

Knowledge Foundation 20180170Swiss National Science Foundation 187087
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low-power energy harvesting has been demonstrated as a feasible alternative for the power supply of next-generation smart sensors and IoT end devices. In many cases, the output of kinetic energy harvesters is an alternating current (AC) requiring rectification in order to supply the electronic load. The rectifier design and selection can have a considerable influence on the energy harvesting system performance in terms of extracted output power and conversion losses. This paper presents a quantitative comparison of three passive rectifiers in a low-power, low-voltage electromagnetic energy harvesting sub-system, namely the full-wave bridge rectifier (FWR), the voltage doubler (VD), and the negative voltage converter rectifier (NVC). Based on a variable reluctance energy harvesting system, we investigate each of the rectifiers with respect to their performance and their effect on the overall energy extraction. We conduct experiments under the conditions of a low-speed rotational energy harvesting application with rotational speeds of 5 rpm to 20 rpm, and verify the experiments in an end-to-end energy harvesting evaluation. Two performance metrics-power conversion efficiency (PCE) and power extraction efficiency (PEE)-are obtained from the measurements to evaluate the performance of the system implementation adopting each of the rectifiers. The results show that the FWR with PEEs of 20% at 5 rpm to 40% at 20 rpm has a low performance in comparison to the VD (40-60%) and NVC (20-70%) rectifiers. The VD-based interface circuit demonstrates the best performance under low rotational speeds, whereas the NVC outperforms the VD at higher speeds (>18 rpm). Finally, the end-to-end system evaluation is conducted with a self-powered rpm sensing system, which demonstrates an improved performance with the VD rectifier implementation reaching the system's maximum sampling rate (40 Hz) at a rotational speed of approximately 15.5 rpm.

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energy harvestinginternet of thingskinetic energy harvestingrotational energy harvestingself-powered sensorssmart sensorsvariable reluctance

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PMID34577523
PMCPMC8473135

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