Enhanced Vibrational Energy Harvesting Using Non-linear Stochastic Resonance

By Colin R. McInnes, D. Gorman, Matthew P. Cartmell. 2008

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion (2014, background): “[69] proposed the use of SR to boost the harvested power by adding periodic forcing to noise excitations.”
M-shaped asymmetric nonlinear oscillator for broadband vibration energy harvesting: Harmonic balance analysis and experimental validation (2014, unknown): “[33] for use in energy harvesting.”
Improving functionality of vibration energy harvesters using magnets (2012, background): “McInnes et al. (2008) and Formosa et al. (2009) proposed to enhance the performance of a bistable system for energy harvesting by exploiting the phenomenon of stochastic resonance, which occurs if the potential barrier of a dynamic system is appropriately forced to oscillate.”
Dynamics and coherence resonance of tri-stable energy harvesting system (2015, background): “McInnes et al [27] employed stochastic resonance to enhance the performance of a snap-through mechanism and numerical simulations reveal the significant enhancement of energy harvesting efficiency at stochastic excitation.”
Bistable vibration energy harvesters: A review (2013, background): “Other numerical studies discussed the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (Litak et al., 2010; McInnes et al., 2008), in which large-amplitude oscillations can be obtained given that sufficient energy is provided for the oscillator to overcome the potential barrier.”
An application of stochastic resonance for energy harvesting in a bistable vibrating system (2014, background): “Theoretical studies have clearly shown that the phenomenon of stochastic resonance can be used to generate large-amplitude vibrations in order to improve vibrational energy harvesting [1,2] but the development of practical methods for the precise control of stochastic resonance is a further challeng”
Novel piezoelectric bistable oscillator architecture for wideband vibration energy harvesting (2013, unknown): “Another class of nonlinear oscillators are multistable [13], and especially bistable oscillators [14–24].”
Broadband tristable energy harvester: Modeling and experiment verification (2014, methodology): “A theoretical model of the bistable oscillator using nonlinear stochastic resonance was proposed by McInnes [20] to enhance energy harvesting performance.”