Biomechanical Energy Harvesting: Generating Electricity During Walking with Minimal User Effort

By J. Donelan, Q. Li, V. Naing, J. A. Hoffer, D. Weber, A. Kuo. Science, 2008

778 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77ff02c7740a7239a0f11c92861384fa9ecbd61d

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Zhong Lin Wang
2. Jun Chen
3. Ya Yang
4. Chenguo Hu
5. Qingshen Jing
6. Yuanjie Su
7. Hulin Zhang
8. Chengkuo Lee

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Andrea C. Ferrari
2. Tawfique Hasan
3. Jun Chen
4. Zhong Lin Wang
5. Ya Yang
6. John Robertson
7. Francesco Bonaccorso
8. Sherali Zeadally

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Zhong Lin Wang
2. Jun Chen
3. Ya Yang
4. Qingshen Jing
5. Chenguo Hu
6. Yuanjie Su
7. Yu Sheng Zhou
8. Hulin Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• Modeling and experimental verification of proof mass effects on vibration energy harvester performance (2010, background): “Many ambient power sources such as thermal gradients, mechanical vibrations, fluid flow, solar, human-driven sources [2, 3] etc.”
• Flexible Electronics: The Next Ubiquitous Platform (2012, background): “There are different ways to harvest, or scavenge, energy from the surrounding or ambient environment, such as the collection of low-frequency vibrations [160], heat (via temperature gradients) [161], biomechanical motion [162], and solar energy [163].”
• Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of human walking during load carriage (2014, background): “developed a device that uses an electromagnetic generator to harvest energy from the knee in a biomimetic fashion [10,11].”