Energy harvesting from a backpack instrumented with piezoelectric shoulder straps

By Jonathan Granstrom, Joel Feenstra, Henry Sodano, Kevin Farinholt. 2007

358 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/93190ce800104f08cad315d85828675961ad88aa

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. T. Seuaciuc-osorio
2. K. Cook-Chennault
3. Lei Zuo
4. Ann Marie Sastry
5. Sourav Banerjee
6. Tzu‐Liang Bill Tseng
7. Hoejin Kim
8. Nithya Thambi

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. T. Seuaciuc-osorio
2. K. Cook-Chennault
3. Aruna Prasad Seneviratne
4. Lei Zuo
5. Ann Marie Sastry
6. Sourav Banerjee
7. Tzu‐Liang Bill Tseng
8. Hoejin Kim

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Lei Zuo
2. Xiudong Tang
3. T. Seuaciuc-osorio
4. K. Cook-Chennault
5. Ann Marie Sastry
6. Sourav Banerjee
7. Tzu‐Liang Bill Tseng
8. Hoejin Kim

Citations in the corpus

• Powering MEMS portable devices—a review of non-regenerative and regenerative power supply systems with special emphasis on piezoelectric energy harvesting systems (2008, background): “Third, piezoelectric generators are well suited for application to both micro- and macroscaled devices, as evidenced by the available thin- and thick-film fabrication techniques [223–237] and macroscaled [58, 186–188, 238–249] devices, as opposed to electromagnetic devices, which are not easily fabr”
• Large-scale vibration energy harvesting (2013, methodology): “This device also harvests the energy from normal human walk, and it is much more efficient compared with the energy harvesting shoes (Shenck and Paradiso, 2001) or the backpack (Granstrom et al, 2007) based on piezoelectric transducers, as we mentioned earlier.”
• Investigation of Power Harvesting via Parametric Excitations (2009, background): “The feasibility of harvesting power from a backpack or shoe inserts was also discussed in the literature (Shenck and Paradiso, 2001; Granstrom et al., 2007).”
• Integrated 3D printing and corona poling process of PVDF piezoelectric films for pressure sensor application (2017, background): “response can be measured and allow us to calculate the d31 coefficient [23].”
• A review of recent research on mechanics of multifunctional composite materials and structures (2010, methodology): “[177] who replaced the nylon shoulder straps on a standard backpack with flexible PVDF piezoelectric straps.”