Optimization of a Rainbow Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System for Tire Monitoring Applications

Esmaeeli, Roja; Aliniagerdroudbari, Haniph; Nazari, Ashkan; Hashemi, Seyed Reza; Alhadri, Muapper; Zakri, Waleed; Mohammed, Abdul Haq; Batur, C.; Farhad, Siamak

doi:10.1115/es2018-7496

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“…26 These embedded sensors can monitor important performance and safety parameters, such as pressure, temperature, friction, acceleration, strain, and contact-patch dimensions, and so on. 27 Among the strain-based energy harvesting from rotating wheels, electromagnetic, 28 electrostatic, 29 and piezoelectric mechanisms have been implemented for tire monitoring applications. PEEHs have been proven to be more efficient because of their simpler design, greater voltage generating potential, and high energy density in practical applications.…”

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“…Research efforts are continuing to improve output power of PEEHs for a range of tire monitoring applications 26 . These embedded sensors can monitor important performance and safety parameters, such as pressure, temperature, friction, acceleration, strain, and contact‐patch dimensions, and so on 27 . Among the strain‐based energy harvesting from rotating wheels, electromagnetic, 28 electrostatic, 29 and piezoelectric mechanisms have been implemented for tire monitoring applications.…”

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Vibration‐based piezoelectric, electromagnetic, and hybrid energy harvesters for microsystems applications: A contributed review

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Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) and embedded microsystems have recently gained tremendous traction from researchers due to their vast sensing and monitoring applications in various fields including healthcare, academic, finance, environment, military, agriculture, retail, and consumer electronics. An essential requirement for the sustainable operation of WSN is the presence of an uninterrupted power supply; which is currently obtained from electrochemical batteries that suffer from limited life cycles and are associated with serious environmental hazards. An alternative to replacing batteries of WSNs; either the direct replacement or to facilitate battery regular recharging, is by looking into energy harvesting for its sustainable drive. Energy harvesting is a technique by which ambient energy can be converted into useful electricity, particularly for low-power WSNs and consumer electronics. In particular, vibration-based energy harvesting has been a key focus area, due to the abundant availability of vibration-based energy sources that can be easily harvested. In vibration-based energy harvesters (VEHs), different optimization techniques and design considerations are taken in order to broaden the operation frequency range through multi-resonant states, increase multi-degree-of-freedom, provide nonlinear characteristics, and implement the hybrid conversion. This comprehensive review summarizes recent developments in VEHs with a focus on piezoelectric, electromagnetic, and hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvesters. Various vibration and motion-induced energy harvesting prototypes have been reviewed and discussed in detail with respect to device architecture, conversion mechanism, performance parameters, and implementation. Overall sizes of most of the reported piezoelectric energy harvesters are in the millimeter to centimeter scales, with resonant frequencies in the range of 2-13 900 Hz. Maximum energy conversion for electromagnetic energy harvesters can potentially reach up to 778.01 μW/cm 3. The power produced by the reported hybrid energy harvesters (HEHs) is in the range of 35.43-4900 μW. Due to the combined piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy conversion in HEHs, these systems are capable of producing the highest power densities.

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“…An energy harvesting system can be used to extract the extra energy from surrounding environment . Energy harvesting systems are capable of extracting a portion of different types of ambient or waste energies including, ocean wave, temperature gradient, radio frequency, vibration, relative motion, strain, and so forth. Energy harvesting is a promising way to supply power from the vehicle wasted energy to small onboard electrical equipment .…”

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“…Bowen and Arafa reviewed the PEHs used for powering up the TPMS for tire applications and reported the power output of the strain‐based PEHs is in between 40 μW and 6.5 mW . Authors also introduced a strain‐based rainbow PEH with power output of 5.85 mW . It is obvious that the output power of the strain‐based PEHs is significantly higher than that of the vibration‐based technology used for tires.…”

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Design, modeling, and analysis of a high performance piezoelectric energy harvester for intelligent tires

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Summary Basic parameters affecting vehicle safety and performance such as pressure, temperature, friction coefficient, and contact‐patch dimensions are measured in intelligent tires via sensors that require electric power for operation and wireless communication to be synchronized to the vehicle monitoring and control system. Piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) can extract a fraction of energy that is wasted as a result of deflection during rolling of tires, and this extracted energy can be used to power up sensors embedded in intelligent tires. A new design of PEH inspired from Cymbal PEHs is introduced, and its performance is evaluated in this paper. Cymbal PEHs are proven to be useful in vibration energy harvesting, and in this paper, for the first time, the modified shape of Cymbal energy harvester is used as strain‐based energy harvester for the tire application. The shape of the harvester is adjusted in a way that it can be safely embedded on the inner surface of tires. In addition to the high performance, ease of manufacturing is another advantage of this new design. A multiphysics model is developed and validated to determine the output voltage, power, and energy of the designed PEH. The modeling results indicated that the maximum output voltage, the maximum electric power, and the accumulated harvested energy are about 3.5 V, 2.8 mW, and 24 mJ/rev, respectively, which are sufficient to power two sensors. In addition, the possibility is shown to supply power to five sensors by increase in piezoelectric material thickness. The effect of rolling tire temperature on the performance of the proposed PEH is also studied.

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“…ere are different configurations of road texture profiles that determine the rubber tread expansion-contraction frequencies and the rubber dry and wet tractions. Nowadays, the attention to the vehicle safety is increased specially with the newly developed autonomous vehicles [2,3]. Casualty and fatality in car accidents highly depend on road condition.…”

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Designing a New Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) System for Testing Viscoelastic Materials at High Frequencies

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The aim of this study is to design a new dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) measurement system that can operate for shear tests at frequencies as high as 10 kHz with strain amplitudes sufficient for viscoelastic materials operating in high-frequency deformation applications, such as tire rubbers. The available DMA systems in market cannot effectively operate for accurate and direct measurement of viscoelastic material properties for applications dealing with high-frequency deformation of materials. Due to this, the available DMA systems are used for indirect measurements at low frequencies and low temperatures, followed by using time-temperature superposition principle to predict the properties at high frequencies. The goal of this study is to make the range of the test broad enough to eliminate the use of the time-temperature superposition principle in the determination of properties of viscoelastic materials. Direct measurement of viscoelastic material properties and increasing the accuracy of results are the main motivations to design a new DMA system. For this purpose, the state-of-the-art technologies to achieve high frequencies and strain amplitudes as well as instrumentation and control of the system are studied. The design process is presented in this paper.

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Optimization of a Rainbow Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System for Tire Monitoring Applications

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Vibration‐based piezoelectric, electromagnetic, and hybrid energy harvesters for microsystems applications: A contributed review

Vibration‐based piezoelectric, electromagnetic, and hybrid energy harvesters for microsystems applications: A contributed review

Design, modeling, and analysis of a high performance piezoelectric energy harvester for intelligent tires

Designing a New Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) System for Testing Viscoelastic Materials at High Frequencies

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