Energy Collection and Measurement of Power of the Movement of the Human Body

Chen, Pengzhan; Zhang, Zhiyong

doi:10.1080/03772063.2017.1361870

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“…Currently, one concept for the development of energy harvesters in this field is to utilize mechanical structures, material properties, chemical reactions, and other mechanisms to collect the human body's energy [17][18][19][20]. Then, the collected energy is converted into electrical energy that is supplied to the user's body through microsensors and wearable equipment to achieve a single function for energy harvesting and conversion.…”

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Active self-powered human motion assist system

Ren,

Zhou,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Smart Mater. Struct.

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Harvesting human energy currently occurs to power wearable devices or monitor human signs, these applications make the energy harvester less applicable to and seldom used for assisting human motion. However, there is a high demand for using such collected energy with the assistance of human motion. This paper presents a novel energy harvester that is designed to collect negative work, assist human motion, and realize self-powering. An active self-powered human motion assist system (HMAS) is developed. The system consists of a human motion assist device (HMAD), a flexible rack, an electronic circuit module, and a supercapacitor. The HMAS can collect negative work from the human body, provide the user with additional motion assistance, and reduce stamina consumption. A series of experiments verify that HMAS has a high negative work collection power and a high energy conversion efficiency. The average output power is 0.93 W measured by the negative work collection test bed at a simulated knee bend angle of 40° and a frequency of 2 Hz. The energy conversion efficiency is up to 48.2%. Human motion assistance experiments verify that HMAS can provide volunteers with up to 2.57% assisting moment and minimize the metabolic cost of volunteers by 6.07% compared to without wearing HMAS. This research work is proposed to contribute to the development of active self-powered exoskeleton technology. This technology can be practically applied in the fields of rehabilitation therapy, logistics transportation, and military combat.

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“…Second-stage energy output gear is co-axial with motor shaft, ω 3 = ω m . Combining equations ( 18) and (19) gives…”

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Active self-powered human motion assist system

Ren,

Zhou,

Zhang

et al. 2024

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“…As many researchers have delved into the field of human movement energy harvesting [9,10], an increasing number of energy harvesters that can be worn on the human body are being developed [11,12]. These energy harvesters convert the bioenergy collected from human movement into electricity [13], replacing or extending the life of traditional batteries that are used to power a wide range of wearable devices [14][15][16][17].…”

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Collecting the energy generated by manual workers to monitor their working status and improve their working conditions by using a flexible rack mechanism

Ren,

Zhou,

et al. 2023

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Currently, an increasing quantity of portable energy harvesting modules are being developed to capture the energy generated by human motion. However, the size and weight of a device can affect the smoothness and comfort of a user's normal limb movements in the process of collecting energy generated by human movement. Especially on manual workers, this effect will significantly increase their physical exertion, so the design of energy-harvesting devices for wearing on manual workers has higher requirements. The bend knee energy harvester(BKEH) designed in the work presented in this paper used a laboratory-made flexible rack to harvest the energy generated by manual workers' frequently bent knees during work. It converts the collected energy into electricity for various wearable devices to monitor the working status of manual workers and improve their working conditions. One end of the flexible rack is fixed to the upper thigh. When the user bends the knee, the flexible rack will move downward, causing the gear to rotate, thereby collecting the energy generated by the body's movement.The BKEH was made of many lightweight materials and weighed only 406 g, greatly reducing the impact on the user's normal limb movements and physical exertion. Practical experiments showed that the BKEH output open-circuit voltage is up to 80.3 V, the output power reached as high as 3.16 W, and the power density reached as high as 7.9 W/kg, which can effectively supply sufficient electrical power for wearable devices to work normally. The BKEH has a high practical value and good adaptability to human movement posture and can generate enough voltage and power to allow some wearable devices to work properly. These wearable devices can effectively provide users with the ability to monitor their work status and improve working conditions.

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