Powering pacemakers from heartbeat vibrations using linear and nonlinear energy harvesters

By M. A. Karami, Daniel J. Inman. 2012

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Conformal piezoelectric energy harvesting and storage from motions of the heart, lung, and diaphragm (2014, background): “Investigations into energy-harvesting strategies to replace batteries demonstrate several unusual ways to extract power from chemical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal processes in the human body (1, 2).”
A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018) (2019, background): “Karami and Inman in 2012 [34] investigated energy harvesting from heartbeat vibration using a nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvester to power pacemakers.”
Numerical computation of nonlinear normal modes in mechanical engineering (2016, positive): “Nonlinearity was therefore deployed deliberately in acoustic switches and rectifiers [5], micromechanical oscillators [6], granular media [7], vibration absorbers [8] and energy harvesters [9].”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from concurrent vortex-induced vibrations and base excitations (2014, neutral): “These energy harvesting systems have been proposed to operate self-powered electronics, such as wireless and health monitoring sensors, data transmitters, medical implants, and cameras [6–9].”
On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion (2014, background): “For medical implants, such as pacemakers [9,10], spinal stimulators [11], and electric pain relievers [12], the availability of reliable and noninvasive power supply is of utmost importance to eliminate replacement of batteries, which has been shown to pose a significant risk of infection.”
Theoretical modeling and nonlinear analysis of piezoelectric energy harvesting from vortex-induced vibrations (2014, background): “These vibration-based energy harvesters have been proposed to operate selfpowered devices including microelectromechanical systems and actuators (Muralt, 2000), health monitoring sensors and wireless sensors (Roundy and Wright, 2005), medical implants (Karami and Inman, 2012), and cameras (Abdelkefi”