Analysis, Design, and Optimisation of an Electromagnetic Energy Harvester

Abstract

One of two major limitations of a vibration energy harvester (VEH), concerns its limited performance due to its confined physical enclosure. The maximum span realizable is attained at a specific excitation level. This excitation level provides the maximum energy harvested by the VEH device. Due to span constraints, VEHs are designed to operate at the maximum span achievable at the maximum excitation level existing within the region of interest. In this study, a constrained optimisation problem (for the VEH) is formulated and investigated. This paper focuses on the analysis, design and optimisation of a nonlinear VEH device.